Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

22 Linux Kernel CVEs in September 2020

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In September 2020, 22 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 6 were rated High severity and 16 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. September's 22 CVEs represent 17% of all 2020 Linux kernel CVEs , up from August's 2 (a 1000% month-over-month increase) .

22
Total CVEs
0
Critical
6
High
16
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — September 2020 22 CVEs
All (22) Critical (0) High (6) Medium (16) Low (0)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2020-14386 linux High 7.8 2020-09-16 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc4. Memory corruption can be exploited to gain root privileges from un…
CVE-2020-25221 linux High 7.8 2020-09-10 get_gate_page in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel 5.7.x and 5.8.x before 5.8.7 allows privilege escalation because of incor…
CVE-2020-25220 linux High 7.8 2020-09-10 The Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.233, 4.14.x before 4.14.194, and 4.19.x before 4.19.140 has a use-after-free because …
CVE-2020-15590 linux High 7.5 2020-09-14 A vulnerability in the Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client for Linux 1.5 through 2.3+ allows remote attackers to b…
CVE-2020-1749 linux High 7.5 2020-09-09 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of some networking protocols in IPsec, such as VXLAN and GENEVE t…
CVE-2020-25212 linux High 7.0 2020-09-09 A TOCTOU mismatch in the NFS client code in the Linux kernel before 5.8.3 could be used by local attackers to corrupt m…
CVE-2020-14331 linux Medium 6.6 2020-09-15 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the invert video code on VGA consoles when a local attacker at…
CVE-2020-25285 linux Medium 6.4 2020-09-13 A race condition between hugetlb sysctl handlers in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.8 could be used by loca…
CVE-2020-25211 linux Medium 6.0 2020-09-09 In the Linux kernel through 5.8.7, local attackers able to inject conntrack netlink configuration could overflow a loca…
CVE-2020-14390 linux Medium 5.6 2020-09-18 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.9-rc6. When changing screen size, an out-of-bounds memory wri…
CVE-2020-26088 linux Medium 5.5 2020-09-24 A missing CAP_NET_RAW check in NFC socket creation in net/nfc/rawsock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.2 could be used …
CVE-2020-10768 linux Medium 5.5 2020-09-16 A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the prctl() function, where it can be used to enable indirect br…
CVE-2020-10781 linux Medium 5.5 2020-09-16 A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel before 5.8-rc6 in the ZRAM kernel module, where a user with a local account and th…
CVE-2020-10767 linux Medium 5.5 2020-09-15 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the implementation of the Enhanced IBPB (Indirect Branch Predict…
CVE-2020-14385 linux Medium 5.5 2020-09-15 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc4. A failure of the file system metadata validator in XFS can cause a…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in September 2020?

22 Linux kernel CVEs were published in September 2020, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 6 High, and 16 Medium.

How does September 2020 compare to other months?

September 2020's 22 CVEs represent 17% of all 2020 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to August's 2 CVEs, this was a 1000% increase month-over-month. View the full 2020 breakdown →

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