Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

46 Linux Kernel CVEs in December 2022

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

November 2022 January 2023

In December 2022, 46 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 1 was rated Critical, 23 were rated High severity and 22 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. December's 46 CVEs represent 14% of all 2022 Linux kernel CVEs , up from November's 22 (a 109% month-over-month increase) .

46
Total CVEs
1
Critical
23
High
22
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — December 2022 46 CVEs
All (46) Critical (1) High (23) Medium (22) Low (0)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2022-47939 linux Critical 9.8 2022-12-23 An issue was discovered in ksmbd in the Linux kernel 5.15 through 5.19 before 5.19.2. fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c has a use-afte…
CVE-2022-47942 linux High 8.8 2022-12-23 An issue was discovered in ksmbd in the Linux kernel 5.15 through 5.19 before 5.19.2. There is a heap-based buffer over…
CVE-2022-47940 linux High 8.1 2022-12-23 An issue was discovered in ksmbd in the Linux kernel 5.15 through 5.18 before 5.18.18. fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c lacks length …
CVE-2022-47943 linux High 8.1 2022-12-23 An issue was discovered in ksmbd in the Linux kernel 5.15 through 5.19 before 5.19.2. There is an out-of-bounds read an…
CVE-2022-34676 linux High 7.8 2022-12-30 NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler, where an out-of-bounds r…
CVE-2022-42256 linux High 7.8 2022-12-30 NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko), where an integer ove…
CVE-2022-42254 linux High 7.8 2022-12-30 NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko), where an out-of-boun…
CVE-2022-42270 linux High 7.8 2022-12-30 NVIDIA distributions of Linux contain a vulnerability in nvdla_emu_task_submit, where unvalidated input may allow a loc…
CVE-2022-42255 linux High 7.8 2022-12-30 NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvidia.ko), where an out-of-boun…
CVE-2022-42264 linux High 7.8 2022-12-30 NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer, where an unprivileged regular us…
CVE-2022-34670 linux High 7.8 2022-12-30 NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler, where an unprivileged re…
CVE-2022-47519 linux High 7.8 2022-12-18 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.0.11. Missing validation of IEEE80211_P2P_ATTR_OPER_CHANNEL in dri…
CVE-2022-47521 linux High 7.8 2022-12-18 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.0.11. Missing validation of IEEE80211_P2P_ATTR_CHANNEL_LIST in dri…
CVE-2022-47518 linux High 7.8 2022-12-18 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.0.11. Missing validation of the number of channels in drivers/net/…
CVE-2022-44689 linux High 7.8 2022-12-13 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in December 2022?

46 Linux kernel CVEs were published in December 2022, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 1 was rated Critical severity, 23 High, and 22 Medium.

How does December 2022 compare to other months?

December 2022's 46 CVEs represent 14% of all 2022 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to November's 22 CVEs, this was a 109% increase month-over-month. View the full 2022 breakdown →

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