Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

32 Linux Kernel CVEs in March 2021

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In March 2021, 32 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 9 were rated High severity and 23 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. March's 32 CVEs represent 18% of all 2021 Linux kernel CVEs , up from February's 14 (a 129% month-over-month increase) .

32
Total CVEs
0
Critical
9
High
23
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — March 2021 32 CVEs
All (32) Critical (0) High (9) Medium (23) Low (0)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2021-28660 linux High 8.8 2021-03-17 rtw_wx_set_scan in drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.6 allows writing bey…
CVE-2021-29266 linux High 7.8 2021-03-26 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.9. drivers/vhost/vdpa.c has a use-after-free because v->config_…
CVE-2021-3444 linux High 7.8 2021-03-23 The bpf verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly handle mod32 destination register truncation when the source regi…
CVE-2021-28952 linux High 7.8 2021-03-20 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8. The sound/soc/qcom/sdm845.c soundwire device driver has a b…
CVE-2021-28375 linux High 7.8 2021-03-15 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.6. fastrpc_internal_invoke in drivers/misc/fastrpc.c does not …
CVE-2021-20268 linux High 7.8 2021-03-09 An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of the eBPF code verifier in the way a user…
CVE-2021-27365 linux High 7.8 2021-03-07 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3. Certain iSCSI data structures do not have appropriate lengt…
CVE-2020-14372 linux High 7.5 2021-03-03 A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06, where it incorrectly enables the usage of the ACPI command when Se…
CVE-2021-27364 linux High 7.1 2021-03-07 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3. drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c is adversely affected b…
CVE-2021-28972 linux Medium 6.7 2021-03-22 In drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8, the RPA PCI Hotplug driver has a user-toler…
CVE-2021-3411 linux Medium 6.7 2021-03-09 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions prior to 5.10. A violation of memory access was found while detecting …
CVE-2021-28038 linux Medium 6.5 2021-03-05 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3, as used with Xen PV. A certain part of the netback driver l…
CVE-2021-28039 linux Medium 6.5 2021-03-05 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.9.x through 5.11.3, as used with Xen. In some less-common configurations,…
CVE-2021-20261 linux Medium 6.4 2021-03-11 A race condition was found in the Linux kernels implementation of the floppy disk drive controller driver software. The…
CVE-2020-27171 linux Medium 6.0 2021-03-20 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. kernel/bpf/verifier.c has an off-by-one error (with a result…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in March 2021?

32 Linux kernel CVEs were published in March 2021, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 9 High, and 23 Medium.

How does March 2021 compare to other months?

March 2021's 32 CVEs represent 18% of all 2021 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to February's 14 CVEs, this was a 129% increase month-over-month. View the full 2021 breakdown →

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