Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

12 Linux Kernel CVEs in May 2018

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In May 2018, 12 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 4 were rated High severity and 8 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. May's 12 CVEs represent 7% of all 2018 Linux kernel CVEs , down from April's 13 (a 8% month-over-month decrease) .

12
Total CVEs
0
Critical
4
High
8
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — May 2018 12 CVEs
All (12) Critical (0) High (4) Medium (8) Low (0)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2018-11506 linux High 7.8 2018-05-28 The sr_do_ioctl function in drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.12 allows local users to cause a d…
CVE-2018-1087 linux High 7.8 2018-05-15 kernel KVM before versions kernel 4.16, kernel 4.16-rc7, kernel 4.17-rc1, kernel 4.17-rc2 and kernel 4.17-rc3 is vulner…
CVE-2018-10675 linux High 7.8 2018-05-02 The do_get_mempolicy function in mm/mempolicy.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.9 allows local users to cause a denial …
CVE-2017-18270 linux High 7.1 2018-05-18 In the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, a local user could create keyrings for other users via keyctl commands, setting unwa…
CVE-2018-11412 linux Medium 5.9 2018-05-24 In the Linux kernel 4.13 through 4.16.11, ext4_read_inline_data() in fs/ext4/inline.c performs a memcpy with an untrust…
CVE-2018-1108 linux Medium 5.9 2018-05-21 kernel drivers before version 4.17-rc1 are vulnerable to a weakness in the Linux kernel's implementation of random seed…
CVE-2018-11508 linux Medium 5.5 2018-05-28 The compat_get_timex function in kernel/compat.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16.9 allows local users to obtain sensiti…
CVE-2018-1000199 linux Medium 5.5 2018-05-24 The Linux Kernel version 3.18 contains a dangerous feature vulnerability in modify_user_hw_breakpoint() that can result…
CVE-2018-11232 linux Medium 5.5 2018-05-18 The etm_setup_aux function in drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.2 allows…
CVE-2018-1130 linux Medium 5.5 2018-05-10 Linux kernel before version 4.16-rc7 is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() function in net/d…
CVE-2018-1118 linux Medium 5.5 2018-05-10 Linux kernel vhost since version 4.8 does not properly initialize memory in messages passed between virtual guests and …
CVE-2018-10940 linux Medium 5.5 2018-05-09 The cdrom_ioctl_media_changed function in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16.6 allows local attacker…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in May 2018?

12 Linux kernel CVEs were published in May 2018, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 4 High, and 8 Medium.

How does May 2018 compare to other months?

May 2018's 12 CVEs represent 7% of all 2018 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to April's 13 CVEs, this was a 8% decrease month-over-month. View the full 2018 breakdown →

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