Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

11 Linux Kernel CVEs in January 2022

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

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In January 2022, 11 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 5 were rated High severity and 6 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. January's 11 CVEs represent 3% of all 2022 Linux kernel CVEs , up from December's 8 (a 38% month-over-month increase) .

11
Total CVEs
0
Critical
5
High
6
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — January 2022 11 CVEs
All (11) Critical (0) High (5) Medium (6) Low (0)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2022-24122 linux High 7.8 2022-01-29 kernel/ucount.c in the Linux kernel 5.14 through 5.16.4, when unprivileged user namespaces are enabled, allows a use-af…
CVE-2021-34866 linux High 7.8 2022-01-25 This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Linux Kernel 5.14-rc3. An…
CVE-2021-34401 linux High 7.8 2022-01-18 NVIDIA Linux kernel distributions contain a vulnerability in nvmap NVGPU_IOCTL_CHANNEL_SET_ERROR_NOTIFIER, where improp…
CVE-2022-23222 linux High 7.8 2022-01-14 kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 5.15.14 allows local users to gain privileges because of the availabi…
CVE-2021-4083 linux High 7.0 2022-01-18 A read-after-free memory flaw was found in the Linux kernel's garbage collection for Unix domain socket file handlers i…
CVE-2021-28714 linux Medium 6.5 2022-01-06 Guest can force Linux netback driver to hog large amounts of kernel memory T[his CNA information record relates to mult…
CVE-2021-28715 linux Medium 6.5 2022-01-06 Guest can force Linux netback driver to hog large amounts of kernel memory T[his CNA information record relates to mult…
CVE-2022-0286 linux Medium 5.5 2022-01-31 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A null pointer dereference in bond_ipsec_add_sa() may lead to local denial of ser…
CVE-2021-46283 linux Medium 5.5 2022-01-11 nf_tables_newset in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c in the Linux kernel before 5.12.13 allows local users to cause a deni…
CVE-2021-4032 linux Medium 4.4 2022-01-21 A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c kvm_free_lapic when a failure all…
CVE-2021-4001 linux Medium 4.1 2022-01-21 A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's ebpf verifier between bpf_map_update_elem and bpf_map_freeze due to a …

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in January 2022?

11 Linux kernel CVEs were published in January 2022, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 5 High, and 6 Medium.

How does January 2022 compare to other months?

January 2022's 11 CVEs represent 3% of all 2022 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to December's 8 CVEs, this was a 38% increase month-over-month. View the full 2022 breakdown →

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