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Tracker / CVE-2018-1108

CVE-2018-1108

Medium 5.9

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 products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.16

Analysis

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