Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

27 Linux Kernel CVEs in May 2021

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In May 2021, 27 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 17 were rated High severity and 9 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. May's 27 CVEs represent 15% of all 2021 Linux kernel CVEs , up from April's 15 (a 80% month-over-month increase) .

27
Total CVEs
0
Critical
17
High
9
Medium
1
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — May 2021 27 CVEs
All (27) Critical (0) High (17) Medium (9) Low (1)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2021-33200 linux High 7.8 2021-05-27 kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 5.12.7 enforces incorrect limits for pointer arithmetic operations, a…
CVE-2020-25671 linux High 7.8 2021-05-26 A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel, where a refcount leak in llcp_sock_connect() causing use-after-free which mi…
CVE-2020-27815 linux High 7.8 2021-05-26 A flaw was found in the JFS filesystem code in the Linux Kernel which allows a local attacker with the ability to set e…
CVE-2020-25669 linux High 7.8 2021-05-26 A vulnerability was found in the Linux Kernel where the function sunkbd_reinit having been scheduled by sunkbd_interrup…
CVE-2020-25670 linux High 7.8 2021-05-26 A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel where refcount leak in llcp_sock_bind() causing use-after-free which might le…
CVE-2021-3483 linux High 7.8 2021-05-17 A flaw was found in the Nosy driver in the Linux kernel. This issue allows a device to be inserted twice into a doubly-…
CVE-2019-25044 linux High 7.8 2021-05-14 The block subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.2 has a use-after-free that can lead to arbitrary code execution in th…
CVE-2021-33034 linux High 7.8 2021-05-14 In the Linux kernel before 5.12.4, net/bluetooth/hci_event.c has a use-after-free when destroying an hci_chan, aka CID-…
CVE-2021-33033 linux High 7.8 2021-05-14 The Linux kernel before 5.11.14 has a use-after-free in cipso_v4_genopt in net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c because the CIPSO and …
CVE-2021-23134 linux High 7.8 2021-05-12 Use After Free vulnerability in nfc sockets in the Linux Kernel before 5.12.4 allows local attackers to elevate their p…
CVE-2021-32606 linux High 7.8 2021-05-11 In the Linux kernel 5.11 through 5.12.2, isotp_setsockopt in net/can/isotp.c allows privilege escalation to root by lev…
CVE-2020-35519 linux High 7.8 2021-05-06 An out-of-bounds (OOB) memory access flaw was found in x25_bind in net/x25/af_x25.c in the Linux kernel version v5.12-r…
CVE-2020-25672 linux High 7.5 2021-05-25 A memory leak vulnerability was found in Linux kernel in llcp_sock_connect
CVE-2021-3501 linux High 7.1 2021-05-06 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.12. The value of internal.ndata, in the KVM API, is mapped to…
CVE-2020-25668 linux High 7.0 2021-05-26 A flaw was found in Linux Kernel because access to the global variable fg_console is not properly synchronized leading …

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in May 2021?

27 Linux kernel CVEs were published in May 2021, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 17 High, and 9 Medium.

How does May 2021 compare to other months?

May 2021's 27 CVEs represent 15% of all 2021 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to April's 15 CVEs, this was a 80% increase month-over-month. View the full 2021 breakdown →

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