Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

15 Linux Kernel CVEs in November 2020

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In November 2020, 15 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 4 were rated High severity and 9 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. November's 15 CVEs represent 13% of all 2020 Linux kernel CVEs , up from October's 6 (a 150% month-over-month increase) .

15
Total CVEs
0
Critical
4
High
9
Medium
2
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — November 2020 15 CVEs
All (15) Critical (0) High (4) Medium (9) Low (2)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
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-2020-29369 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-2020-29368 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-2020-15436 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-2020-28915 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-2020-27152 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…
CVE-2020-15437 linux Medium 4.4 2020-11-23 The Linux kernel before version 5.8 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:…
CVE-2020-29374 linux Low 3.6 2020-11-28 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.7.3, related to mm/gup.c and mm/huge_memory.c. The get_user_pages …
CVE-2020-29371 linux Low 3.3 2020-11-28 An issue was discovered in romfs_dev_read in fs/romfs/storage.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.4. Uninitialized memory …

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in November 2020?

15 Linux kernel CVEs were published in November 2020, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 4 High, and 9 Medium.

How does November 2020 compare to other months?

November 2020's 15 CVEs represent 13% of all 2020 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to October's 6 CVEs, this was a 150% increase month-over-month. View the full 2020 breakdown →

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