Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

8 Linux Kernel CVEs in February 2019

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In February 2019, 8 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 1 was rated Critical, 5 were rated High severity and 2 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. February's 8 CVEs represent 3% of all 2019 Linux kernel CVEs , up from January's 7 (a 14% month-over-month increase) .

8
Total CVEs
1
Critical
5
High
2
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — February 2019 8 CVEs
All (8) Critical (1) High (5) Medium (2) 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-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-2016-10741 linux Medium 4.7 2019-02-01 In the Linux kernel before 4.9.3, fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) beca…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in February 2019?

8 Linux kernel CVEs were published in February 2019, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 1 was rated Critical severity, 5 High, and 2 Medium.

How does February 2019 compare to other months?

February 2019's 8 CVEs represent 3% of all 2019 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to January's 7 CVEs, this was a 14% increase month-over-month. View the full 2019 breakdown →

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