Linux has 8,801 CVEs on record between 2019 and 2026. Disclosure cadence is accelerating: 3618 in the last 90 days against 1301 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 1301

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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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction If something was written to the buffer just before destruction, it may be possible (maybe not in a real system, b…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bus: mhi: host: Range check CHDBOFF and ERDBOFF If the value read from the CHDBOFF and ERDBOFF registers is outside the range of the MHI register space then an invalid…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: fix null deref on element insertion There is no guarantee that rb_prev() will not return NULL in nft_rbtree_gc_elem(): general protection f…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing/histograms: Add histograms to hist_vars if they have referenced variables Hist triggers can have referenced variables without having direct variables fields

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fprobe: Release rethook after the ftrace_ops is unregistered While running bpf selftests it's possible to get following fault: general protection fault, probably fo…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: reject auth/assoc to AP with our address If the AP uses our own address as its MLD address or BSSID, then clearly something's wrong

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bcmgenet: Add a check for oversized packets Occasionnaly we may get oversized packets from the hardware which exceed the nomimal 2KiB buffer size we allocate SKBs…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Propagate error from htab_lock_bucket() to userspace In __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch() if htab_lock_bucket() returns -EBUSY, it will go to next bucket

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash when I/O abort times out While performing CPU hotplug, a crash with the following stack was seen: Call Trace: qla24xx_process_response_q…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block, bfq: fix possible uaf for 'bfqq->bic' Our test report a uaf for 'bfqq->bic' in 5.10: ================================================================== BUG: KA…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/mad: Don't call to function that might sleep while in atomic context Tracepoints are not allowed to sleep, as such the following splat is generated due to call to i…

smb: client: fix smbdirect_recv_io leak in smbd_negotiate() error path

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: delete timer and free skb queue when unloading Fix possible crash and memory leak on driver unload by deleting TX purge timer and freeing C2H queue in 'rt…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: insert tree mod log move in push_node_left There is a fairly unlikely race condition in tree mod log rewind that can result in a kernel panic which has the foll…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cgroup: split cgroup_destroy_wq into 3 workqueues A hung task can occur during [1] LTP cgroup testing when repeatedly mounting/unmounting perf_event and net_prio contr…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Validate data run offset This adds sanity checks for data run offset

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd: fix potential memory leak This patch fix potential memory leak (clk_src) when function run into last return NULL. s/free/kfree/ - Alex

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: ccp - Always pass in an error pointer to __sev_platform_shutdown_locked() When 9770b428b1a2 ("crypto: ccp - Move dev_info/err messages for SEV/SNP init and …

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: af_alg - Set merge to zero early in af_alg_sendmsg If an error causes af_alg_sendmsg to abort, ctx->merge may contain a garbage value from the previous loop

wifi: mwifiex: Initialize the chan_stats array to zero

mm/damon/reclaim: avoid divide-by-zero in damon_reclaim_apply_parameters()

wifi: ath11k: fix deinitialization of firmware resources

wifi: rtw88: Fix memory leak in rtw88_usb

wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: Fix integer overflow in iwl_write_to_user_buf

RDMA/rxe: Fix unsafe drain work queue code

scsi: ses: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in ses_intf_remove()

cgroup,freezer: hold cpu_hotplug_lock before freezer_mutex

scsi: mpt3sas: Fix a memory leak

macvlan: add forgotten nla_policy for IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_CUTOFF

virtio-mmio: don't break lifecycle of vm_dev