CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-1108

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2018-05-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-05-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-330

Description

kernel 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 sequence, could use the data allocated for the seed before it was sufficiently generated.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.16) • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 18.04 • debian debian linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values weakness

References