Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

19 Linux Kernel CVEs in February 2019

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In February 2019, 19 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 1 was rated Critical, 10 were rated High severity and 8 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. February's 19 CVEs represent 6% of all 2019 Linux kernel CVEs , up from January's 7 (a 171% month-over-month increase) .

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Total CVEs
1
Critical
10
High
8
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — February 2019 19 CVEs
All (19) Critical (1) High (10) Medium (8) Low (0)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2018-20784 linux Critical 9.8 2019-02-22 In the Linux kernel before 4.20.2, kernel/sched/fair.c mishandles leaf cfs_rq's, which allows attackers to cause a deni…
CVE-2019-6974 linux High 8.1 2019-02-15 In the Linux kernel before 4.20.8, kvm_ioctl_create_device in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c mishandles reference counting because…
CVE-2019-9162 linux High 7.8 2019-02-25 In the Linux kernel before 4.20.12, net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic_main.c in the SNMP NAT module has insufficient…
CVE-2019-8912 linux High 7.8 2019-02-18 In the Linux kernel through 4.20.11, af_alg_release() in crypto/af_alg.c neglects to set a NULL value for a certain str…
CVE-2018-12010 linux High 7.8 2019-02-11 In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, Absence of l…
CVE-2018-13889 linux High 7.8 2019-02-11 In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, Heap memory …
CVE-2018-11962 linux High 7.8 2019-02-11 In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, Use-after-fr…
CVE-2018-13893 linux High 7.8 2019-02-11 In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, Out of bound…
CVE-2018-12014 linux High 7.8 2019-02-11 In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, Null pointer…
CVE-2019-9003 linux High 7.5 2019-02-22 In the Linux kernel before 4.20.5, attackers can trigger a drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c use-after-free and OOPS …
CVE-2019-8980 linux High 7.5 2019-02-21 A memory leak in the kernel_read_file function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel through 4.20.11 allows attackers to cau…
CVE-2019-7308 linux Medium 5.6 2019-02-01 kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.20.6 performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arith…
CVE-2019-9111 linux Medium 5.5 2019-02-25 The msm gpu driver for custom Linux kernels on the Xiaomi perseus-p-oss MIX 3 device through 2018-11-26 has an integer …
CVE-2019-9112 linux Medium 5.5 2019-02-25 The msm gpu driver for custom Linux kernels on the Xiaomi perseus-p-oss MIX 3 device through 2018-11-26 has an integer …
CVE-2018-20787 linux Medium 5.5 2019-02-25 The ft5x46 touchscreen driver for custom Linux kernels on the Xiaomi perseus-p-oss MIX 3 device through 2018-11-26 has …

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in February 2019?

19 Linux kernel CVEs were published in February 2019, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 1 was rated Critical severity, 10 High, and 8 Medium.

How does February 2019 compare to other months?

February 2019's 19 CVEs represent 6% of all 2019 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to January's 7 CVEs, this was a 171% increase month-over-month. View the full 2019 breakdown →

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