linux has 7,142 CVEs on record between 2019 and 2026. Disclosure cadence is accelerating: 3448 in the last 90 days against 811 in the 90 before. The busiest recent month was September 2026 with 1985. The median CVSS is 7.8 (high), with 513 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 213 days (6 cases). The dominant weakness classes are CWE-416 (492) and CWE-476 (436). Most affected products: Linux (4791), linux_kernel (2349), kernel (1).
CVEs per month
Last 12 months, by publish date
- Exploited share
- 0% vs 1% corpus
- Median CVSS
- 7.8
- Publish → KEV
- 213 d median(6)
- Last 90 days
- 3448 prev 811
Weakness classes
Products
- Linux 4791
- linux_kernel 2349
- kernel 1
- layer_2_tunneling_protocol 1
Worst active — by depth score
CVE-2025-39682Critical· 9.8In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list Each recvmsg() call must process either - only contiguous DATA records (any number of them) - one non-DATA re…80CVE-2025-22037High· 7.5In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix null pointer dereference in alloc_preauth_hash() The Client send malformed smb2 negotiate request80CVE-2026-43284High· 8.8In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb frags MSG_SPLICE_PAGES can attach pages from a pipe directly to an skb79CVE-2023-3867Critical· 9.1In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix out of bounds read in smb2_sess_setup ksmbd does not consider the case of that smb2 session setup is in compound request76CVE-2026-53266High· 8.8In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable The ebtables SNAT target keeps the Ethernet source address rewrite behind skb_ensure_writable(skb, 0)74
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7142 CVEsRSS
CVE-2026-98704Nonewifi: mac80211: keep fallback association elements alive
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: keep fallback association elements alive Associating to a non-transmitted MBSSID profile reads freed memory while determining the operating channel and…
CVE-2026-98710Nonewifi: iwlegacy: 3945: free EEPROM data on remove
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlegacy: 3945: free EEPROM data on remove il3945_pci_probe() calls il_eeprom_init(), which allocates memory for the EEPROM data. The probe failure paths release…
CVE-2026-98708Medium· 4.7wifi: mac80211: keep paired old chanctx alive
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: keep paired old chanctx alive An in-place replacement keeps reciprocal replace_ctx pointers between the old WILL_BE_REPLACED chanctx and the new REPLAC…
CVE-2026-98707Nonewifi: mac80211: shut down RX BA session timer on teardown
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: shut down RX BA session timer on teardown Tearing down an RX BA session can leave the session timer queued on a freed tid_rx. Later timer-wheel process…
CVE-2026-98713NoneKVM: arm64: Apply the fine-grained UNDEFs without FEAT_FGT
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Apply the fine-grained UNDEFs without FEAT_FGT FGUs don't actually require hardware support, so don't gate fgt trap config insertion on FGT. This is the on…
CVE-2026-98711Medium· 4.6wifi: cw1200: fix TX padding OOB read leaking heap data to device
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cw1200: fix TX padding OOB read leaking heap data to device The TX path rounds the transfer size up to the bus alignment (align_size(), up to 511 bytes for SDIO,…
CVE-2026-98709Nonewifi: mac80211: count only matching reservations in reserved switch
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: count only matching reservations in reserved switch ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_switch() validates a replacement by counting assigned links on ctx->repl…
CVE-2026-98715NoneKVM: SVM: Preserve TLB control (i.e. pending TLB flush) on failed VMRUN
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Preserve TLB control (i.e. pending TLB flush) on failed VMRUN Don't reset the VMCB's TLB control back to "do nothing" on a failed VMRUN, as empirical testing…
CVE-2026-98714NoneKVM: SVM: Update control fields on #VMEXIT if and only if VMRUN succeeded
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Update control fields on #VMEXIT if and only if VMRUN succeeded Leave control.erap_ctl and control.clean as-is in the VMCS if VMRUN fails, because as per AMD…
CVE-2026-98712NoneKVM: arm64: vgic: Take a refcount on IRQs referenced by last_lr_irq
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: vgic: Take a refcount on IRQs referenced by last_lr_irq Referencing the last interrupt inserted in an LR is rather fragile, as this interrupt can vanish if…
CVE-2026-98720NoneKVM: nVMX: Force MSR bitmap refresh if runtime eVMCS controls are modified
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: nVMX: Force MSR bitmap refresh if runtime eVMCS controls are modified Force a refresh of the vmcs02 MSR bitmap during nested VM-Enter if the runtime eVMCS control…
CVE-2026-98719NoneKVM: SEV: Nullify "have run CPUs" mask pointer when freeing it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SEV: Nullify "have run CPUs" mask pointer when freeing it Nullify have_run_cpus when freeing the mask, particularly in the error path of __sev_guest_init(), so th…
CVE-2026-98717NoneKVM: x86/mmu: Bail from shadow walks if the root is invalid or a dummy
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86/mmu: Bail from shadow walks if the root is invalid or a dummy When walking shadow page tables, immediately terminate the walk if the root is a "dummy" root, i…
CVE-2026-98716NoneKVM: SVM: Use the active VMCB's MSR bitmap when checking if MSR is intercepted
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Use the active VMCB's MSR bitmap when checking if MSR is intercepted Use the MSR permission bitmap of the active VMCB instead of assuming that KVM is always …
CVE-2026-98722Nonemtd: block2mtd: Fix divide error when erase_size is zero
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: block2mtd: Fix divide error when erase_size is zero The erase size is parsed from the "block2mtd" module parameter and can be set to zero. add_device() then evalu…
CVE-2026-98721Nonemtd: rawnand: cadence: Initialize IRQ state before requesting IRQ
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: rawnand: cadence: Initialize IRQ state before requesting IRQ The Cadence NAND interrupt handler uses both the IRQ lock and completion object. Registering the IRQ …
CVE-2026-98718NoneKVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM *before* clearing SEV state
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM *before* clearing SEV state Explicitly flush caches after intra-host migration before clearing "SEV active" on the sour…
CVE-2026-98725Nonenvmet-auth: fix out-of-bounds write in nvmet_auth_challenge()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet-auth: fix out-of-bounds write in nvmet_auth_challenge() nvmet_auth_challenge() receives its output buffer as a void pointer. sizeof(*d) therefore evaluates to on…
CVE-2026-98724Nonenvmet: pci-epf: reject too-short SGL segments
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet: pci-epf: reject too-short SGL segments The host controls an SGL segment's length. A nonzero length smaller than one SGL descriptor makes nr_descs zero, so nvmet…
CVE-2026-98723Nonenvmet: copy the hostid into the ctrl before creating PR pc_refs
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet: copy the hostid into the ctrl before creating PR pc_refs Commit 6202783184bf ("nvmet: Improve nvmet_alloc_ctrl() interface and implementation") added a second u…
CVE-2026-98734NoneBluetooth: hci_core: Serialize SCO and ISO scheduling with teardown
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_core: Serialize SCO and ISO scheduling with teardown hci_low_sent() selects a connection under RCU but drops the read lock before calculating its quota …
CVE-2026-98733High· 7.0Bluetooth: hci_core: Serialize fragmented ISO packet queueing
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_core: Serialize fragmented ISO packet queueing The fragmented path in hci_queue_iso() calls __skb_queue_tail() without holding conn->data_q.lock. The so…
CVE-2026-98738Medium· 5.1Bluetooth: Serialize SMP remote OOB data access
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: Serialize SMP remote OOB data access build_pairing_cmd() looks up remote OOB data and copies its contents without holding hdev->lock, which serializes the l…
CVE-2026-98737Medium· 4.7Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix inquiry cache use-after-free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix inquiry cache use-after-free The sync command worker holds hdev->req_lock, but inquiry-cache updates and flushes use hdev->lock. Both hci_acl_…
CVE-2026-98742Medium· 4.7ALSA: seq: Serialize compat port-info ioctls
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: seq: Serialize compat port-info ioctls The native sequencer ioctl path serializes handler calls with client->ioctl_mutex, but the translated port-info compat pat…
CVE-2026-98750Medium· 4.7tty: fix saved termios reset race
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: fix saved termios reset race Resetting saved termios state on device registration is needed where a minor number can be reused for an entirely different device an…
CVE-2026-98749Medium· 4.7tty: serial: max3100: shut down timer before freeing port
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: serial: max3100: shut down timer before freeing port max3100_shutdown() stops the polling timer but returns early during system suspend. If the SPI device is unbo…
CVE-2026-98748Medium· 4.1serial: 8250_bcm7271: fix use-after-free in brcmuart_remove()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: 8250_bcm7271: fix use-after-free in brcmuart_remove() brcmuart_handle_irq() starts priv->hrt to work around a receive-timeout quirk of the 8250 core when hardw…
CVE-2026-98754High· 7.0tty: vcc: hold port lock when clearing tty pointer in vcc_cleanup
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: vcc: hold port lock when clearing tty pointer in vcc_cleanup vcc_cleanup() sets port->tty to NULL without holding port->lock, racing with vcc_event() LDC callback…
CVE-2026-98755Low· 3.3tty: vcc: zero-initialize control packet in vcc_send_ctl()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: vcc: zero-initialize control packet in vcc_send_ctl() The stack-allocated struct vio_vcc pkt was partially initialized, leaving the tag.stype_env field uninitiali…