Linux vulnerabilities
We track 3,714 vulnerabilities in Linux products across 5 products. 3,710 are rated high or critical, and 32 have been exploited in real attacks. The most recent was published on October 15, 2026.
Latest Linux vulnerabilities
- 8.8 High severity
Linux: NULL Pointer Dereference
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wilc1000: fix RCU usage in connect path With lockdep enabled, calls to the connect function from cfg802.11 layer lead to the following warning: ============================= WARNING: sus
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Use After Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtl8xxxu: add cancel_work_sync() for c2hcmd_work The workqueue might still be running, when the driver is stopped. To avoid a use-after-free, call cancel_work_sync() in rtl8xxxu_stop().
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Write
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libbpf: Use OPTS_SET() macro in bpf_xdp_query() When the feature_flags and xdp_zc_max_segs fields were added to the libbpf bpf_xdp_query_opts, the code writing them did not use the OPTS_SET()
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Use After Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7925e: fix use-after-free in free_irq() From commit a304e1b82808 ("[PATCH] Debug shared irqs"), there is a test to make sure the shared irq handler should be able to handle the u
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Fix a potential buffer overflow in 'dp_dsc_clock_en_read()' Tell snprintf() to store at most 10 bytes in the output buffer instead of 30. Fixes the below: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Use After Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: edia: dvbdev: fix a use-after-free In dvb_register_device, *pdvbdev is set equal to dvbdev, which is freed in several error-handling paths. However, *pdvbdev is not set to NULL after dv
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Write
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix writeback data corruption cifs writeback doesn't correctly handle the case where cifs_extend_writeback() hits a point where it is considering an additional folio, but this would over
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Improper Validation of Array Index
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vkms: Avoid reading beyond LUT array When the floor LUT index (drm_fixp2int(lut_index) is the last index of the array the ceil LUT index will point to an entry beyond the array. Make sure
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Use of Uninitialized Resource
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fork: defer linking file vma until vma is fully initialized Thorvald reported a WARNING [1]. And the root cause is below race: CPU 1 CPU 2 fork hugetlbfs_fallocate dup_mmap hugetlbfs_punch_hol
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Improper Locking
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: r8169: fix LED-related deadlock on module removal Binding devm_led_classdev_register() to the netdev is problematic because on module removal we get a RTNL-related deadlock. Fix this by avoidi
- 7.0 High severity
Linux: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: Fix potential data-race in __nft_expr_type_get() nft_unregister_expr() can concurrent with __nft_expr_type_get(), and there is not any protection when iterate over nf_tab
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm: nv04: Fix out of bounds access When Output Resource (dcb->or) value is assigned in fabricate_dcb_output(), there may be out of bounds access to dac_users array in case dcb->or is zero bec
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: interconnect: Don't access req_list while it's being manipulated The icc_lock mutex was split into separate icc_lock and icc_bw_lock mutexes in [1] to avoid lockdep splats. However, this didn'
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Use After Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: f_ncm: Fix UAF ncm object at re-bind after usb ep transport error When ncm function is working and then stop usb0 interface for link down, eth_stop() is called. At this piont, acc
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Off-by-one Error
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: tcpm: Correct the PDO counting in pd_set Off-by-one errors happen because nr_snk_pdo and nr_src_pdo are incorrectly added one. The index of the loop is equal to the number of PDOs
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Write
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: init/main.c: Fix potential static_command_line memory overflow We allocate memory of size 'xlen + strlen(boot_command_line) + 1' for static_command_line, but the strings copied into static_com
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Use After Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bootconfig: use memblock_free_late to free xbc memory to buddy On the time to free xbc memory in xbc_exit(), memblock may has handed over memory to buddy allocator. So it doesn't make sense to
- 7.1 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Squashfs: check the inode number is not the invalid value of zero Syskiller has produced an out of bounds access in fill_meta_index(). That out of bounds access is ultimately caused because th
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Improper Validation of Array Index
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix OOB in nilfs_set_de_type The size of the nilfs_type_by_mode array in the fs/nilfs2/dir.c file is defined as "S_IFMT >> S_SHIFT", but the nilfs_set_de_type() function, which uses th
- 8.2 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix slab-out-of-bounds in smb2_allocate_rsp_buf If ->ProtocolId is SMB2_TRANSFORM_PROTO_NUM, smb2 request size validation could be skipped. if request size is smaller than sizeof(struct
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed Always flush the per-vCPU async #PF workqueue when a vCPU is clearing its completion queue, e.g. when a VM and all its vCPUs
- 7.0 High severity
Linux: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: qat - resolve race condition during AER recovery During the PCI AER system's error recovery process, the kernel driver may encounter a race condition with freeing the reset_data struct
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Write
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: qcom: mmcc-msm8974: fix terminating of frequency table arrays The frequency table arrays are supposed to be terminated with an empty element. Add such entry to the end of the arrays where
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Use After Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mac802154: fix llsec key resources release in mac802154_llsec_key_del mac802154_llsec_key_del() can free resources of a key directly without following the RCU rules for waiting before the end
- 7.0 High severity
Linux: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff() There was previously a theoretical window where swapoff() could run and teardown a swap_info_struct while a call to free_swap_and
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Use After Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfs: fix UAF in direct writes In production we have been hitting the following warning consistently ------------[ cut here ]------------ refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free. WARNING: CPU: 17
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Use After Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/zcrypt: fix reference counting on zcrypt card objects Tests with hot-plugging crytpo cards on KVM guests with debug kernel build revealed an use after free for the load field of the struc
- 7.1 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix slab-out-of-bounds in smb_strndup_from_utf16() If ->NameOffset of smb2_create_req is smaller than Buffer offset of smb2_create_req, slab-out-of-bounds read can happen from smb2_open
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix potencial out-of-bounds when buffer offset is invalid I found potencial out-of-bounds when buffer offset fields of a few requests is invalid. This patch set the minimum value of buf
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Use After Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wireguard: netlink: check for dangling peer via is_dead instead of empty list If all peers are removed via wg_peer_remove_all(), rather than setting peer_list to empty, the peer is added to a
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: NULL Pointer Dereference
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wireguard: netlink: access device through ctx instead of peer The previous commit fixed a bug that led to a NULL peer->device being dereferenced. It's actually easier and faster performance-wi
- 8.4 High severity
Linux: Divide By Zero
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: iaa - Fix nr_cpus < nr_iaa case If nr_cpus < nr_iaa, the calculated cpus_per_iaa will be 0, which causes a divide-by-0 in rebalance_wq_table(). Make sure cpus_per_iaa is 1 in that case
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Use After Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: zoned: fix use-after-free in do_zone_finish() Shinichiro reported the following use-after-free triggered by the device replace operation in fstests btrfs/070. BTRFS info (device nullb1)
- 7.0 High severity
Linux: Use After Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915/vma: Fix UAF on destroy against retire race Object debugging tools were sporadically reporting illegal attempts to free a still active i915 VMA object when parking a GT believed to be
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: validate request buffer size in smb2_allocate_rsp_buf() The response buffer should be allocated in smb2_allocate_rsp_buf before validating request. But the fields in payload as well as
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Improper Locking
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: core: Fix deadlock in usb_deauthorize_interface() Among the attribute file callback routines in drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c, the interface_authorized_store() function is the only one which a
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Improper Locking
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: core: Fix deadlock in port "disable" sysfs attribute The show and store callback routines for the "disable" sysfs attribute file in port.c acquire the device lock for the port's parent hu
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Double Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: tcpm: fix double-free issue in tcpm_port_unregister_pd() When unregister pd capabilitie in tcpm, KASAN will capture below double -free issue. The root cause is the same capabilitiy
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Double Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix double free of the ha->vp_map pointer Coverity scan reported potential risk of double free of the pointer ha->vp_map. ha->vp_map was freed in qla2x00_mem_alloc(), and again
- 9.8 Critical severity
Linux: Use After Free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Fix a use-after-free There are two .exit_cmd_priv implementations. Both implementations use resources associated with the SCSI host. Make sure that these resources are still availa