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18 CVEs across 9 Kernel products. Browse Kernel vulnerabilities, severities, and proof-of-concept exploits.

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ProductCVEs
Util-Linux18
Linux Kernel2
Drivers1
Heap-Based Buffer Overflow In Fs/ext4/xattr.c1
Kvm1
Linux-Pam1
Security1
Selinux1
Vhost1
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CVE-2026-13595Medium6.82026-06-29A flaw was found in the libblkid library of util-linux. During nested partition probing, the BSD, Minix, Solaris x86, and UnixWare partition probers cache a ra…
CVE-2026-27456Medium4.72026-04-03util-linux is a random collection of Linux utilities. Prior to version 2.41.4, a TOCTOU (Time-of-Check-Time-of-Use) vulnerability has been identified in the SU…
CVE-2026-3184Low3.72026-04-03A flaw was found in util-linux. Improper hostname canonicalization in the `login(1)` utility, when invoked with the `-h` option, can modify the supplied remote…
CVE-2024-28085Low3.32024-03-27wall in util-linux through 2.40, often installed with setgid tty permissions, allows escape sequences to be sent to other users' terminals through argv. (Speci…
CVE-2020-21583Medium6.72023-08-22An issue was discovered in hwclock.13-v2.27 allows attackers to gain escalated privlidges or execute arbitrary commands via the path parameter when setting the…
CVE-2021-3996Medium5.52022-08-23A logic error was found in the libmount library of util-linux in the function that allows an unprivileged user to unmount a FUSE filesystem. This flaw allows a…
CVE-2021-3995Medium5.52022-08-23A logic error was found in the libmount library of util-linux in the function that allows an unprivileged user to unmount a FUSE filesystem. This flaw allows a…
CVE-2022-0563Medium5.52022-02-21A flaw was found in the util-linux chfn and chsh utilities when compiled with Readline support. The Readline library uses an "INPUTRC" environment variable to…
CVE-2021-37600Medium5.52021-07-30An integer overflow in util-linux through 2.37.1 can potentially cause a buffer overflow if an attacker were able to use system resources in a way that leads t…
CVE-2020-10751Medium6.12020-05-26A flaw was found in the Linux kernels SELinux LSM hook implementation before version 5.7, where it incorrectly assumed that an skb would only contain a single…
CVE-2018-17953High7.52018-11-27A incorrect variable in a SUSE specific patch for pam_access rule matching in PAM 1.3.0 in openSUSE Leap 15.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 could lead to pam_ac…
CVE-2018-10840Medium6.62018-07-16Linux kernel is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the fs/ext4/xattr.c:ext4_xattr_set_entry() function. An attacker could exploit this by operating…
CVE-2016-9604Medium4.42018-07-11It was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.11-rc8 that root can gain direct access to an internal keyring, such as '.dns_resolver' in RHEL-7 or '.builtin_t…
CVE-2018-1108Medium5.92018-05-21kernel drivers before version 4.17-rc1 are vulnerable to a weakness in the Linux kernel's implementation of random seed data. Programs, early in the boot seque…
CVE-2018-1087High8.02018-05-15kernel KVM before versions kernel 4.16, kernel 4.16-rc7, kernel 4.17-rc1, kernel 4.17-rc2 and kernel 4.17-rc3 is vulnerable to a flaw in the way the Linux kern…
CVE-2018-1118Low2.32018-05-10Linux kernel vhost since version 4.8 does not properly initialize memory in messages passed between virtual guests and the host operating system in the vhost/v…
CVE-2018-7738High7.82018-03-07In util-linux before 2.32-rc1, bash-completion/umount allows local users to gain privileges by embedding shell commands in a mountpoint name, which is mishandl…
CVE-2015-5224Critical9.82017-08-23The mkostemp function in login-utils in util-linux when used incorrectly allows remote attackers to cause file name collision and possibly other attacks.
CVE-2016-5011Medium4.62017-04-11The parse_dos_extended function in partitions/dos.c in the libblkid library in util-linux allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (m…
CVE-2014-9114High7.82017-03-31Blkid in util-linux before 2.26rc-1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code.
CVE-2016-2779High7.82017-02-07runuser in util-linux allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buff…
CVE-2015-52182015-11-09Buffer overflow in text-utils/colcrt.c in colcrt in util-linux before 2.27 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file, related…
CVE-2013-01572014-01-21(a) mount and (b) umount in util-linux 2.14.1, 2.17.2, and probably other versions allow local users to determine the existence of restricted directories by (1…
CVE-2009-32882009-09-22The sg_build_indirect function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in Linux kernel 2.6.28-rc1 through 2.6.31-rc8 uses an incorrect variable when accessing an array, which all…
CVE-2007-67122008-04-12Integer overflow in the hrtimer_forward function (hrtimer.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.21-rc4, when running on 64-bit systems, allows local users to cause a denial o…
CVE-2007-51912007-10-04mount and umount in util-linux and loop-aes-utils call the setuid and setgid functions in the wrong order and do not check the return values, which might allow…
CVE-2001-1494Medium5.52001-12-31script command in the util-linux package before 2.11n allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by setting a hardlink from the typescript log file to any…