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CVE-2018-1108

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: 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 products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Linux kernel: through 4.16

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104055
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1108
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00000.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3718-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3718-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3752-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3752-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3752-3/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104055
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1108
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00000.html

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