Linux has 8,801 CVEs on record between 2019 and 2026. Disclosure cadence is accelerating: 3618 in the last 90 days against 1308 in the 90 before. The busiest recent month was September 2026 with 2014. The median CVSS is 7.8 (high), with 520 rated critical. 0% have been exploited in the wild, in line with the corpus average. The median gap from publication to a KEV listing is 158 days (7 cases). The dominant weakness classes are CWE-416 (496) and CWE-476 (444). Most affected products: Linux (6450), linux_kernel (2349), kernel (1).

CVEs per month

Last 12 months, by publish date

1225/120126/010226/020326/030426/040526/050626/060726/070826/080926/091026/101126/11

Exploited share: 0% vs 1% corpus
Median CVSS: 7.8
Publish → KEV: 158 d median(7)
Last 90 days: 3618 prev 1308

Weakness classes

Products

Linux 6450
linux_kernel 2349
kernel 1
layer_2_tunneling_protocol 1

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8801

Total CVEs

520

Critical

CISA KEV

Exploited

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8801 CVEsRSS

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Linux vulnerabilities

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rsi: validate beacon length before fixed buffer copy rsi_prepare_beacon() copies the mac80211 beacon frame after FRAME_DESC_SZ into a management skb whose usable…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb/client: zero-initialize stack-allocated cifs_open_info_data Stack-allocated cifs_open_info_data may contain random data. This can make some fields have wrong value…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: validate rx/tx MLME callback frame lengths before access cfg80211_rx_mlme_mgmt() and cfg80211_tx_mlme_mgmt() call tracepoints before rejecting frames s…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: ibss: wait for in-flight TX on disconnect While leaving an IBSS in ieee80211_ibss_disconnect() mac80211 flushes stations, turns the carrier off and imm…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: libipw: fix key index receive bound checks libipw_rx() reads skb->data[hdrlen + 3] to extract the WEP key index in both the software-decrypt key selection path a…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix double fput Fix a double fput() in error handling in cachefiles_create_tmpfile().

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: caiaq: validate EP1 reply lengths usb_ep1_command_reply_dispatch() uses buf[0] as a command byte and then reads command-specific fixed items from the …

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rsi: avoid reading TKIP MIC keys for non-TKIP ciphers rsi_hal_load_key() copies tx_mic_key and rx_mic_key from data[16] and data[24] whenever key data is present…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: tree-checker: validate INODE_REF's namelen [BUG] A crafted btrfs image can trigger the following crash: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffd1d…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: Fix acl.sd_buf memory leak and invalid sd_size error handling 1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: flush pending RCU callbacks on module unload Call rcu_barrier() in module exit to wait for outstanding call_rcu() callbacks before freeing module text, pre…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: au1000: move free_irq out of the close-time spinlocked section au1000_close() calls free_irq() while aup->lock is still held with spin_lock_irqsave()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: core: Abort active target transfer on controller suspend When an SPI controller operating in target mode has a transfer in progress at the time of system suspend,…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix sd_ndr.data memory leak in ksmbd_vfs_set_sd_xattr ndr_encode_v4_ntacl() allocates sd_ndr.data via kzalloc() at entry. If any subsequent ndr_write_*() call r…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: mediatek: Protect root bus removal with rescan lock Hold the pci_rescan_remove_lock lock while stopping and removing a root bus to avoid racing with concurrent re…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: Fix addr_filter_ranges lifetime Lee Jia Jie reported that since event::addr_filter_ranges is used under RCU, it should be RCU freed.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: validate inline dentry name lengths before conversion Inline dentry conversion copies names out of the inline dentry area before checking that each recorded name…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: altera: Protect root bus removal with rescan lock Hold the pci_rescan_remove_lock lock while stopping and removing a root bus to avoid racing with concurrent resc…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: rockchip: Protect root bus removal with rescan lock Hold the pci_rescan_remove_lock lock while stopping and removing a root bus to avoid racing with concurrent re…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: plda: Protect root bus removal with rescan lock Hold the pci_rescan_remove_lock lock while stopping and removing a root bus to avoid racing with concurrent rescan…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: hidpp: fix potential UAF in hidpp_connect_event() If input_register_device() fails, we call input_free_device(), but keep stale pointer to the old device in hidpp…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: Let driver decide buffer size at AMDKFD_IOC_GET_DMABUF_INFO ioctl amdkfd driver needs allocate buffer to return bo metadata to user space

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: iproc: Protect root bus removal with rescan lock Hold the pci_rescan_remove_lock lock while stopping and removing a root bus to avoid racing with concurrent resca…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-fs: avoid double-free on failed queue setup virtio_fs_setup_vqs() allocates fs->vqs and fs->mq_map before calling virtio_find_vqs()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: Add NULL check for spi_get_device_id() in spi_get_device_match_data() Prevent NULL pointer dereference when spi_get_device_id() returns NULL, which can happen whe…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: reject the combination of TLS and sockmap TLS and sockmap (BPF psock) integration hides a lot of latent bugs. Bugs which may be more or less relevant for real use…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: stmmac: xgmac2: disable RBUE in default RX interrupt mask Enabling the RX Buffer Unavailable (RBUE) interrupt is counterproductive and can trigger a MAC interrupt…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix races in cifsd thread creation The cifsd demultiplex thread can run and access tcp_ses before the parent thread has finished populating tcp_ses, which…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: fix handling of damaged volume in exfat_create_upcase_table() When the size of the upcase table is set to zero in the dentry for any reason(e.g

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-fc: Do not cancel requests in io target before it is initialized A new nvme-fc controller in CONNECTING state sees admin request timeout schedules ctrl->ioerr_wor…