CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-4311

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2007-08-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-08-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-310

Description

The xfer_secondary_pool function in drivers/char/random.c in the Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.35 performs reseed operations on only the first few bytes of a buffer, which might make it easier for attackers to predict the output of the random number generator, related to incorrect use of the sizeof operator.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.4.34)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References