Linux Kernel CVE Statistics
40 Linux Kernel CVEs in August 2022
Full month · Source: NIST NVD
In August 2022, 40 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 15 were rated High severity and 25 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. August's 40 CVEs represent 13% of all 2022 Linux kernel CVEs , up from July's 12 (a 233% month-over-month increase) .
40
Total CVEs
0
Critical
15
High
25
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — August 2022
40 CVEs
| CVE ID | Package | Severity | CVSS | Published | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2022-1043 | linux | High | 8.8 | 2022-08-29 | A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s io_uring implementation. This flaw allows an attacker with a local account to co… | |
| CVE-2022-1976 | linux | High | 7.8 | 2022-08-31 | A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of IO-URING. This flaw allows an attacker with local executable p… | |
| CVE-2021-4037 | linux | High | 7.8 | 2022-08-24 | A vulnerability was found in the fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() function logic of the LInux kernel that allows local use… | |
| CVE-2021-4028 | linux | High | 7.8 | 2022-08-24 | A flaw in the Linux kernel's implementation of RDMA communications manager listener code allowed an attacker with local… | |
| CVE-2022-2978 | linux | High | 7.8 | 2022-08-24 | A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel NILFS file system was found in the way user triggers function security_inode_… | |
| CVE-2022-2938 | linux | High | 7.8 | 2022-08-23 | A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of Pressure Stall Information. While the feature is disabled by d… | |
| CVE-2022-1199 | linux | High | 7.5 | 2022-08-29 | A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. This flaw allows an attacker to crash the Linux kernel by simulating amateur radi… | |
| CVE-2022-0400 | linux | High | 7.5 | 2022-08-29 | An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in linux kernel in the smc protocol stack, causing remote dos. | |
| CVE-2022-0850 | linux | High | 7.1 | 2022-08-29 | A vulnerability was found in linux kernel, where an information leak occurs via ext4_extent_header to userspace. | |
| CVE-2021-4204 | linux | High | 7.1 | 2022-08-24 | An out-of-bounds (OOB) memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's eBPF due to an Improper Input Validation. Thi… | |
| CVE-2022-1973 | linux | High | 7.1 | 2022-08-05 | A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel in log_replay in fs/ntfs3/fslog.c in the NTFS journal. This flaw al… | |
| CVE-2022-2590 | linux | High | 7.0 | 2022-08-31 | A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of p… | |
| CVE-2022-3028 | linux | High | 7.0 | 2022-08-31 | A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's IP framework for transforming packets (XFRM subsystem) when multiple c… | |
| CVE-2022-2961 | linux | High | 7.0 | 2022-08-29 | A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s PLP Rose functionality in the way a user triggers a race conditio… | |
| CVE-2022-2959 | linux | High | 7.0 | 2022-08-25 | A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's watch queue due to a missing lock in pipe_resize_ring(). The specific … |