Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

13 Linux Kernel CVEs in October 2018

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In October 2018, 13 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 5 were rated High severity and 6 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. October's 13 CVEs represent 3% of all 2018 Linux kernel CVEs , down from September's 67 (a 81% month-over-month decrease) .

13
Total CVEs
0
Critical
5
High
6
Medium
2
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — October 2018 13 CVEs
All (13) Critical (0) High (5) Medium (6) Low (2)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2018-18559 linux High 8.1 2018-10-22 In the Linux kernel through 4.19, a use-after-free can occur due to a race condition between fanout_add from setsockopt…
CVE-2018-18281 linux High 7.8 2018-10-30 Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap() syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall …
CVE-2018-18653 linux High 7.8 2018-10-26 The Linux kernel, as used in Ubuntu 18.10 and when booted with UEFI Secure Boot enabled, allows privileged local users …
CVE-2018-18445 linux High 7.8 2018-10-17 In the Linux kernel 4.14.x, 4.15.x, 4.16.x, 4.17.x, and 4.18.x before 4.18.13, faulty computation of numeric bounds in …
CVE-2018-18021 linux High 7.1 2018-10-07 arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c in KVM in the Linux kernel before 4.18.12 on the arm64 platform mishandles the KVM_SET_ON_REG io…
CVE-2017-18281 linux Medium 5.5 2018-10-29 A bool variable in Video function, which gets typecasted to int before being read could result in an out of bound read …
CVE-2018-18710 linux Medium 5.5 2018-10-29 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.19. An information leak in cdrom_ioctl_select_disc in drivers/cdr…
CVE-2018-18690 linux Medium 5.5 2018-10-26 In the Linux kernel before 4.17, a local attacker able to set attributes on an xfs filesystem could make this filesyste…
CVE-2018-14656 linux Medium 5.5 2018-10-08 A missing address check in the callers of the show_opcodes() in the Linux kernel allows an attacker to dump the kernel …
CVE-2018-17972 linux Medium 5.5 2018-10-03 An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel through 4.18.11. It does n…
CVE-2018-17977 linux Medium 4.4 2018-10-08 The Linux kernel 4.14.67 mishandles certain interaction among XFRM Netlink messages, IPPROTO_AH packets, and IPPROTO_IP…
CVE-2018-6559 linux Low 3.3 2018-10-26 The Linux kernel, as used in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10, allows local users to obtain names of files in which th…
CVE-2018-18386 linux Low 3.3 2018-10-17 drivers/tty/n_tty.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.11 allows local attackers (who are able to access pseudo terminals)…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in October 2018?

13 Linux kernel CVEs were published in October 2018, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 5 High, and 6 Medium.

How does October 2018 compare to other months?

October 2018's 13 CVEs represent 3% of all 2018 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to September's 67 CVEs, this was a 81% decrease month-over-month. View the full 2018 breakdown →

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