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

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520

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CISA KEV

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: speakup: keyhelp: guard letter_offsets possible out-of-range indexing help_init() builds letter_offsets[] by using the first byte of each function name as an index via…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: bcm-vk: Use acquire/release for msgq_inited bcm_vk_sync_msgq() fills the message queue information and then sets msgq_inited

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: Only fini scheduler after successful init msm_ringbuffer_new() destroys a partially initialized ring through msm_ringbuffer_destroy() when an allocation or sc…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: ufs: core: Avoid possible memory reclaim deadlock in TX EQTR context TX EQTR may run while devfreq gear scaling has quiesced the UFS tagset

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: f_uac1_legacy: remove broken string configfs attributes The UAC1_STR_ATTRIBUTE macro defines configfs show/store handlers for the fn_play, fn_cap, and fn_…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: UDF symlink pathComponent header OOB read udf_symlink_filler() can enter udf_pc_to_char() with a partial pathComponent header. Validate that enough input remains for …

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpu: host1x: Avoid stack over-read in debug output helpers host1x_debug_output() and host1x_debug_cont() used vsnprintf(), which returns the length the formatted strin…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/adreno: fix use after free on error path in a6xx_gpu_init() The a6xx_destroy() function frees "a6xx_gpu" and so "adreno_gpu" points to freed memory

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: Fix task_struct reference leak in recover_worker get_pid_task() increments the task reference count, but the corresponding put_task_struct() was missing in th…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: OPP: Fix cleanup ordering Commit 173e02d67494 ("OPP: Initialize scope-based pointers inline") added initialization for all pointers

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix off-by-one in TXF key sanitiser iwl_mvm_frob_txf_key_iter() tracks the last matched byte position in loop variable 'i'

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mei: check SAP message length before reading it Verify the SAP message size is not larger than the local buffer before reading the message to avoid buff…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: guard against division by zero in iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_fragments Make sure we don't end-up with a num_frags = 0 situation. For that, check that the require…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/bridge: tc358767: clamp the reported AUX read size to the request tc_aux_transfer() clamps an AUX read to the payload limit: size_t size = min_t(size_t, DP_AUX_M…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm/pat: Take cpa_lock around large-page collapse Loading and unloading modules concurrently on several CPUs on a KASAN build, with a short delay injected at the CP…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: fix counter type in iwl_fwrt_dump_error_logs The loop counter 'count' was declared as u8 while num_pc is u32. If firmware advertises more than 255 PC en…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: irqchip/renesas-irqc: Fix generic interrupt chip leak on remove The driver allocates domain generic chips probe

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: bcm2835-unicam: Fix asc leaked in error/remove path v4l2_async_nf_add_fwnode_remote() allocates the asc, which is freed when v4l2_async_nf_cleanup() is called. …

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: ipu6: Do not free aux device pdata after init ipu6_bus_initialize_device() stores the isys/psys pdata pointer in struct ipu6_bus_device and initializes the auxi…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Fix DM I2C teardown race DM I2C adapters can remain visible to userspace while DM teardown is already in progress

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: arm_scmi: Fix SCMI device destroy lifetimes scmi_child_dev_find() drops the reference returned by device_find_child() before returning the scmi_device pointe…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: arm_scmi: Fix transport device teardown lookup SCMI transport devices are deliberately excluded from normal SCMI bus matching so protocol drivers cannot bind…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dax: read holder_ops once in dax_holder_notify_failure() dax_holder_notify_failure() reads dax_dev->holder_ops twice without READ_ONCE() -- once for the NULL check and…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dax/fsdev: clear vmemmap_shift when binding static pgmap Clear pgmap->vmemmap_shift for static DAX devices

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dax/fsdev: clear pgmap ops and owner on unbind fsdev_dax_probe() sets pgmap->ops = &fsdev_pagemap_ops and pgmap->owner = dev_dax, but nothing ever clears them

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dax/fsdev: use __va(phys) for kaddr in direct_access Use __va(phys) instead of virt_addr + linear_offset for the kaddr return in __fsdev_dax_direct_access()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: arm_scmi: Unwind P2A receiver mailbox setup failure mailbox_chan_setup() can request an additional P2A receiver channel after successfully acquiring the prim…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/features: Reject Get Feature count larger than the output buffer cxlctl_get_feature() sizes its output buffer from the user's fwctl_rpc.out_len, but the device is …

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/features: Reject Set Features output buffer smaller than the header cxlctl_set_feature() sizes its output buffer from the user's fwctl_rpc.out_len but never checks…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/features: Clamp Get Feature output size to the remaining buffer cxl_get_feature() reads a feature in a loop but passes a fixed size_out as the output capacity ever…