Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

18 Linux Kernel CVEs in April 2020

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In April 2020, 18 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 7 were rated High severity and 11 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. April's 18 CVEs represent 14% of all 2020 Linux kernel CVEs , up from March's 1 (a 1700% month-over-month increase) .

18
Total CVEs
0
Critical
7
High
11
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — April 2020 18 CVEs
All (18) Critical (0) High (7) Medium (11) Low (0)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2019-15793 linux High 8.8 2020-04-24 In shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 kernel series, several location…
CVE-2019-15792 linux High 7.8 2020-04-24 In shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 kernel series, shiftfs_btrfs_io…
CVE-2019-15791 linux High 7.8 2020-04-24 In shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 kernel series, shiftfs_btrfs_io…
CVE-2020-11725 linux High 7.8 2020-04-12 snd_ctl_elem_add in sound/core/control.c in the Linux kernel through 5.6.3 has a count=info->owner line, which later af…
CVE-2020-8835 linux High 7.8 2020-04-02 In the Linux kernel 5.5.0 and newer, the bpf verifier (kernel/bpf/verifier.c) did not properly restrict the register bo…
CVE-2020-11668 linux High 7.1 2020-04-09 In the Linux kernel before 5.6.1, drivers/media/usb/gspca/xirlink_cit.c (aka the Xirlink camera USB driver) mishandles …
CVE-2020-11884 linux High 7.0 2020-04-29 In the Linux kernel 4.19 through 5.6.7 on the s390 platform, code execution may occur because of a race condition, as d…
CVE-2020-12465 linux Medium 6.7 2020-04-29 An array overflow was discovered in mt76_add_fragment in drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/dma.c in the Linux kernel b…
CVE-2020-12464 linux Medium 6.7 2020-04-29 usb_sg_cancel in drivers/usb/core/message.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8 has a use-after-free because a transfer oc…
CVE-2019-15794 linux Medium 6.7 2020-04-24 Overlayfs in the Linux kernel and shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 …
CVE-2019-20636 linux Medium 6.7 2020-04-08 In the Linux kernel before 5.4.12, drivers/input/input.c has out-of-bounds writes via a crafted keycode table, as demon…
CVE-2020-8834 linux Medium 6.5 2020-04-09 KVM in the Linux kernel on Power8 processors has a conflicting use of HSTATE_HOST_R1 to store r1 state in kvmppc_hv_ent…
CVE-2020-11565 linux Medium 6.0 2020-04-06 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.6.2. mpol_parse_str in mm/mempolicy.c has a stack-based out-of-bo…
CVE-2020-8832 linux Medium 5.5 2020-04-10 The fix for the Linux kernel in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for CVE-2019-14615 ("The Linux kernel did not properly clear data stru…
CVE-2020-11669 linux Medium 5.5 2020-04-10 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2 on the powerpc platform. arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S does …

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in April 2020?

18 Linux kernel CVEs were published in April 2020, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 7 High, and 11 Medium.

How does April 2020 compare to other months?

April 2020's 18 CVEs represent 14% of all 2020 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to March's 1 CVEs, this was a 1700% increase month-over-month. View the full 2020 breakdown →

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