Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

5 Linux Kernel CVEs in September 2021

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

August 2021 October 2021

In September 2021, 5 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 4 were rated High severity and 1 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. September's 5 CVEs represent 3% of all 2021 Linux kernel CVEs , down from August's 27 (a 81% month-over-month decrease) .

5
Total CVEs
0
Critical
4
High
1
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — September 2021 5 CVEs
All (5) Critical (0) High (4) Medium (1) Low (0)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2021-3653 linux High 8.8 2021-09-29 A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VM…
CVE-2021-38300 linux High 7.8 2021-09-20 arch/mips/net/bpf_jit.c in the Linux kernel before 5.4.10 can generate undesirable machine code when transforming unpri…
CVE-2021-41073 linux High 7.8 2021-09-19 loop_rw_iter in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel 5.10 through 5.14.6 allows local users to gain privileges by using IO…
CVE-2021-40490 linux High 7.0 2021-09-03 A race condition was discovered in ext4_write_inline_data_end in fs/ext4/inline.c in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux ke…
CVE-2021-20317 linux Medium 4.4 2021-09-27 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A corrupted timer tree caused the task wakeup to be missing in the timerqueue_add…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in September 2021?

5 Linux kernel CVEs were published in September 2021, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 4 High, and 1 Medium.

How does September 2021 compare to other months?

September 2021's 5 CVEs represent 3% of all 2021 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to August's 27 CVEs, this was a 81% decrease month-over-month. View the full 2021 breakdown →

August 2021 2021 statistics October 2021