Name | CVE-2018-1108 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
NVD severity | medium |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
linux (PTS) | stretch | 4.9.228-1 | vulnerable |
stretch (security) | 4.9.246-2 | vulnerable | |
buster | 4.19.160-2 | fixed | |
buster (security) | 4.19.152-1 | fixed | |
bullseye | 5.10.4-1 | fixed | |
sid | 5.10.5-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
linux | source | wheezy | (not affected) | |||
linux | source | jessie | (not affected) | |||
linux | source | (unstable) | 4.16.5-1 |
[stretch] - linux <ignored> (Can't be fixed without many user-space changes)
[jessie] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[wheezy] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
Fixed by: https://git.kernel.org/linus/43838a23a05fbd13e47d750d3dfd77001536dd33
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1559