Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

18 Linux Kernel CVEs in November 2020

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In November 2020, 18 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 5 were rated High severity and 11 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. November's 18 CVEs represent 14% of all 2020 Linux kernel CVEs , up from October's 7 (a 157% month-over-month increase) .

18
Total CVEs
0
Critical
5
High
11
Medium
2
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — November 2020 18 CVEs
All (18) Critical (0) High (5) Medium (11) Low (2)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2020-25661 linux High 8.8 2020-11-05 A Red Hat only CVE-2020-12351 regression issue was found in the way the Linux kernel's Bluetooth implementation handled…
CVE-2020-25705 linux High 7.4 2020-11-17 A flaw in ICMP packets in the Linux kernel may allow an attacker to quickly scan open UDP ports. This flaw allows an of…
CVE-2020-29370 linux High 7.0 2020-11-28 An issue was discovered in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk in mm/slub.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5.11. The slowpath lacks the…
CVE-2020-29368 linux High 7.0 2020-11-28 An issue was discovered in __split_huge_pmd in mm/huge_memory.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.5. The copy-on-write imp…
CVE-2020-29369 linux High 7.0 2020-11-28 An issue was discovered in mm/mmap.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.11. There is a race condition between certain expan…
CVE-2020-15436 linux Medium 6.7 2020-11-23 Use-after-free vulnerability in fs/block_dev.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8 allows local users to gain privileges or …
CVE-2020-29373 linux Medium 6.5 2020-11-28 An issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6. It unsafely handles the root directory during …
CVE-2020-25662 linux Medium 6.5 2020-11-05 A Red Hat only CVE-2020-12352 regression issue was found in the way the Linux kernel's Bluetooth stack implementation h…
CVE-2020-28915 linux Medium 5.8 2020-11-18 A buffer over-read (at the framebuffer layer) in the fbcon code in the Linux kernel before 5.8.15 could be used by loca…
CVE-2020-28941 linux Medium 5.5 2020-11-19 An issue was discovered in drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c in the Linux kernel through 5.9.9. Local attackers…
CVE-2020-8694 linux Medium 5.5 2020-11-12 Insufficient access control in the Linux kernel driver for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to …
CVE-2020-27152 linux Medium 5.5 2020-11-06 An issue was discovered in ioapic_lazy_update_eoi in arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c in the Linux kernel before 5.9.2. It has an …
CVE-2019-20934 linux Medium 5.3 2020-11-28 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.6. On NUMA systems, the Linux fair scheduler has a use-after-fre…
CVE-2020-28974 linux Medium 5.0 2020-11-20 A slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon in the Linux kernel before 5.9.7 could be used by local attackers to read privileged…
CVE-2020-29372 linux Medium 4.7 2020-11-28 An issue was discovered in do_madvise in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 5.6.8. There is a race condition betwe…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in November 2020?

18 Linux kernel CVEs were published in November 2020, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 5 High, and 11 Medium.

How does November 2020 compare to other months?

November 2020's 18 CVEs represent 14% of all 2020 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to October's 7 CVEs, this was a 157% increase month-over-month. View the full 2020 breakdown →

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