vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-1108: kernel: drivers: getrandom(2) unblocks too early after system boot

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 21, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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