Linux Kernel CVE Statistics

20 Linux Kernel CVEs in May 2023

Full month · Source: NIST NVD

April 2023 June 2023

In May 2023, 20 Linux kernel CVEs were published, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 7 were rated High severity and 13 Medium. No CVEs from this month have been confirmed as actively exploited via the CISA KEV catalog. May's 20 CVEs represent 7% of all 2023 Linux kernel CVEs , down from April's 43 (a 53% month-over-month decrease) .

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Total CVEs
0
Critical
7
High
13
Medium
0
Low
0
KEV Exploited
All CVEs — May 2023 20 CVEs
All (20) Critical (0) High (7) Medium (13) Low (0)
CVE ID Package Severity CVSS Published Description
CVE-2023-2124 linux High 7.8 2023-05-15 An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s XFS file system in how a user restores an XFS image…
CVE-2023-28410 linux High 7.8 2023-05-10 Improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer in some Intel(R) i915 Graphics drivers for linu…
CVE-2023-32233 linux High 7.8 2023-05-08 In the Linux kernel through 6.3.1, a use-after-free in Netfilter nf_tables when processing batch requests can be abused…
CVE-2023-2235 linux High 7.8 2023-05-01 A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel Performance Events system can be exploited to achieve local privileg…
CVE-2023-2236 linux High 7.8 2023-05-01 A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel io_uring subsystem can be exploited to achieve local privilege escal…
CVE-2023-2156 linux High 7.5 2023-05-09 A flaw was found in the networking subsystem of the Linux kernel within the handling of the RPL protocol. This issue re…
CVE-2022-48502 linux High 7.1 2023-05-31 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.2. The ntfs3 subsystem does not properly check for correctness dur…
CVE-2023-2002 linux Medium 6.8 2023-05-26 A vulnerability was found in the HCI sockets implementation due to a missing capability check in net/bluetooth/hci_sock…
CVE-2020-36694 linux Medium 6.7 2023-05-21 An issue was discovered in netfilter in the Linux kernel before 5.10. There can be a use-after-free in the packet proce…
CVE-2023-2513 linux Medium 6.7 2023-05-08 A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem in the way it handled the extra inode si…
CVE-2023-32269 linux Medium 6.7 2023-05-05 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.1.11. In net/netrom/af_netrom.c, there is a use-after-free because…
CVE-2023-33203 linux Medium 6.4 2023-05-18 The Linux kernel before 6.2.9 has a race condition and resultant use-after-free in drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/emac/e…
CVE-2023-34256 linux Medium 5.5 2023-05-31 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.3. There is an out-of-bounds read in crc16 in lib/crc16.c when c…
CVE-2023-0459 linux Medium 5.5 2023-05-25 Copy_from_user on 64-bit versions of the Linux kernel does not implement the __uaccess_begin_nospec allowing a user to …
CVE-2023-1195 linux Medium 5.5 2023-05-18 A use-after-free flaw was found in reconn_set_ipaddr_from_hostname in fs/cifs/connect.c in the Linux kernel. The issue …

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Linux kernel CVEs were published in May 2023?

20 Linux kernel CVEs were published in May 2023, sourced from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Of these, 0 were rated Critical severity, 7 High, and 13 Medium.

How does May 2023 compare to other months?

May 2023's 20 CVEs represent 7% of all 2023 Linux kernel CVEs. Compared to April's 43 CVEs, this was a 53% decrease month-over-month. View the full 2023 breakdown →

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