linux has 2,768 CVEs on record between 2021 and 2026. Disclosure cadence is accelerating: 1706 in the last 90 days against 308 in the 90 before. The busiest recent month was September 2026 with 1571. The median CVSS is 7.8 (high), with 153 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 255 days (6 cases). The dominant weakness classes are CWE-416 (154) and CWE-476 (112). Most affected products: Linux (1902), linux_kernel (866).
CVEs per month
Last 12 months, by publish date
- Exploited share
- 0% vs 1% corpus
- Median CVSS
- 7.8
- Publish → KEV
- 255 d median(6)
- Last 90 days
- 1706 prev 308
Weakness classes
Products
- Linux 1902
- linux_kernel 866
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…79CVE-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)74CVE-2023-52440Critical· 9.8In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix slub overflow in ksmbd_decode_ntlmssp_auth_blob() If authblob->SessionKey.Length is bigger than session key size(CIFS_KEY_SIZE), slub overflow can happen in…70CVE-2023-2008High· 8.2A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's udmabuf device driver, within a fault handler70CVE-2022-0995High· 7.8An out-of-bounds (OOB) memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s watch_queue event notification subsystem70
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2768 CVEsRSS
CVE-2021-3739High· 7.1A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the btrfs_rm_device function in fs/btrfs/volumes.c in the Linux Kernel, where triggering the bug requires ‘CAP_SYS_ADMIN’
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the btrfs_rm_device function in fs/btrfs/volumes.c in the Linux Kernel, where triggering the bug requires ‘CAP_SYS_ADMIN’. This flaw allows a local attacker to crash the system or leak kernel …
CVE-2022-26490High· 7.8st21nfca_connectivity_event_received in drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c in the Linux kernel through 5.16.12 has EVT_TRANSACTION buffer overflows because of untrusted length parameters.
st21nfca_connectivity_event_received in drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c in the Linux kernel through 5.16.12 has EVT_TRANSACTION buffer overflows because of untrusted length parameters.
CVE-2021-4090High· 7.1An out-of-bounds (OOB) memory write flaw was found in the NFSD in the Linux kernel
An out-of-bounds (OOB) memory write flaw was found in the NFSD in the Linux kernel. Missing sanity may lead to a write beyond bmval[bmlen-1] in nfsd4_decode_bitmap4 in fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c. In this flaw, a local attacker with user privilege…
CVE-2022-24958High· 7.8drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 5.16.8 mishandles dev->buf release.
drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 5.16.8 mishandles dev->buf release.
CVE-2021-44733High· 7.0PoCA use-after-free exists in drivers/tee/tee_shm.c in the TEE subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.15.11
A use-after-free exists in drivers/tee/tee_shm.c in the TEE subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.15.11. This occurs because of a race condition in tee_shm_get_from_id during an attempt to free a shared memory object.
CVE-2021-38166High· 7.8In kernel/bpf/hashtab.c in the Linux kernel through 5.13.8, there is an integer overflow and out-of-bounds write when many elements are placed in a single bucket
In kernel/bpf/hashtab.c in the Linux kernel through 5.13.8, there is an integer overflow and out-of-bounds write when many elements are placed in a single bucket. NOTE: exploitation might be impractical without the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability.
CVE-2021-33034High· 7.8PoCIn the Linux kernel before 5.12.4, net/bluetooth/hci_event.c has a use-after-free when destroying an hci_chan, aka CID-5c4c8c954409
In the Linux kernel before 5.12.4, net/bluetooth/hci_event.c has a use-after-free when destroying an hci_chan, aka CID-5c4c8c954409. This leads to writing an arbitrary value.
CVE-2021-33033High· 7.8The Linux kernel before 5.11.14 has a use-after-free in cipso_v4_genopt in net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c because the CIPSO and CALIPSO refcounting for the DOI definitions is mishandled, aka CID-ad5d07f4a9cd
The Linux kernel before 5.11.14 has a use-after-free in cipso_v4_genopt in net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c because the CIPSO and CALIPSO refcounting for the DOI definitions is mishandled, aka CID-ad5d07f4a9cd. This leads to writing an arbitrary va…