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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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject writes through untrusted BTF pointers check_ptr_to_btf_access() lets program-type btf_struct_access callbacks validate writes before the default BTF access…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: media: ipu7: fix pm_runtime refcount leak in ipu7_resume() ipu7_resume() calls pm_runtime_get_sync() before resuming the device. If the runtime PM resume fail…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject MEM_ALLOC BTF accesses past object bounds BTF struct walks relax the struct-size check for accesses through a trailing flexible array

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/bpf: Replace ly instruction with llgf cpu_nr is a 32 bit value and BPF_REG_0 is a 64 bit register, when ly loads the cpu_nr into BPF_REG_0 it does not zero the up…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: time/namespace: Validate nanosecond field in proc_timens_set_offset() The function validates tv_sec to be within [-KTIME_SEC_MAX, KTIME_SEC_MAX] but never validates th…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet-rdma: fix response resource leak on queue teardown When an nvme target with rdma transport is removed while I/Os are in flight, a response can be posted but its …

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cgroup/cpuset: Make nr_deadline_tasks an atomic_t The nr_deadline_tasks variable in the cpuset structure was introduced by commit 6c24849f5515 ("sched/cpuset: Keep tra…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211_hwsim: avoid NULL skb in stop queue drain mac80211_hwsim_stop() drops any frames left in data->pending

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: keembay - Fix AEAD unregister count in error path register_aes_algs() registers the AEAD algorithms before registering the skcipher algorithms

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/irdma: Add refcounting to user ring MRs Prevent userspace from deregistering the MRs that back QP/CQ/SRQ rings by bumping the MR's refcount upon association.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/bng_re: return a timeout when firmware responses stall __wait_for_resp() documents that it returns a non-zero error when a firmware command does not complete, and…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: qat - clear AES key schedule from stack qat_alg_xts_reverse_key() expands the forward XTS AES key on the stack. That schedule contains key material and can rem…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: rk3288 - fail ahash requests on HASH idle timeout rk_hash_run() waits for RK_CRYPTO_HASH_STS to become idle after the final DMA transfer, but ignores the poll …

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: sa2ul - stop probe if context pool creation fails sa_ul_probe() calls sa_init_mem() to create the DMA pool used for security context buffers, but ignores its r…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwrng: xilinx-trng - propagate timeout before any data is read xtrng_readblock32() polls for 16-byte chunks but returns the number of bytes read even when the first po…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: atmel-ecc - reject hardware ECDH without a public key The hardware ECDH path in atmel_ecdh_compute_shared_secret() uses the private key stored in the device

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: uprobes/x86: Move optimized uprobe from nop5 to nop10 Andrii reported an issue with optimized uprobes [1] that can clobber redzone area with call instruction storing r…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: qat - cancel work on re-enable SR-IOV timeout The QAT reset worker queues SR-IOV reenable work using a work_struct and completion embedded in an on-stack adf_s…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: atmel-sha204a - fix heap info leak on I2C transfer failure The nonblocking RNG path allocates a work_data structure to track the state of an in-flight asynchro…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: debug: fix off by on in rtw89_ppdu_str() This > comparison should be >= to avoid an out of bounds access.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/chrome: sensorhub: Fix memory overread in ring handler `max_response` and `sensor_num` are read from different EC commands: - `max_response` is from cros_ec_…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwrng: core - fix rng list on registration error hwrng_register(rng) does the following: 1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Fix channel idle state management in AXIDMA and MCDMA interrupt handlers Fix a race condition in AXIDMA and MCDMA irq handlers where the channel…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Fix CPU stall in xilinx_dma_poll_timeout Currently when calling xilinx_dma_poll_timeout with delay_us=0 and a condition that is never fulfilled,…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: csky: Fix a4/a5 restoration in syscall trace path The syscall trace path reloads syscall arguments from pt_regs before calling the syscall handler

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mm_init: handle alloc_percpu failure in free_area_init_core_hotplug We miss a failed allocation check for pgdat->per_cpu_nodestats, which results in a NULL deref wh…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: leds: lp5860: Fix a potential double-unlock In lp5860_device_init(), if lp5860_init_dt() fails, an already unlocked mutex is unlocked another time. Slightly rework ho…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: zynqmp_dma: fix race between runtime PM and device removal In zynqmp_dma_remove(), runtime PM was disabled only after checking state and doing a manual susp…

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Fix dangling pointer in CRTC reset function amdgpu_dm_crtc_reset_state() frees the old state before allocating a new one

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Copy per-CPU map value padding in copy_map_value_long() In kernel, per-CPU map elements are stored with round_up(map->value_size, 8) bytes