vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-1108: linux -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 1, 2018
Added
May 2, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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