{"id":17567,"date":"2026-11-03T17:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17567"},"modified":"2026-10-31T17:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:15:40","slug":"linux-kernel-is-approaching-2000-cves-per-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17567","title":{"rendered":"Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the proliferation of AI\/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. A usual number is around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-Kernel-CVEs-Nearly-2000\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-Kernel-CVEs-Nearly-2000\">500 CVEs fixed per release, releases are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" data-attachment-id=\"17568\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=17568\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/10\/image-12.png?fit=684%2C507&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"684,507\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/10\/image-12.png?fit=640%2C474&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/10\/image-12.png?resize=640%2C474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/10\/image-12.png?w=684&amp;ssl=1 684w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/10\/image-12.png?resize=364%2C270&amp;ssl=1 364w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/10\/image-12.png?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the proliferation of AI\/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. A usual number is around 500 CVEs fixed per release, releases are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4zl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17570,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567\/revisions\/17570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}