Linux Kernel CVE Statistics
5 Linux Kernel CVEs in September 2021
Full month · Source: NIST NVD
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
| 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… |