UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1108

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1108

    Published: 21 May 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-1108

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1108, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=43838a23a05fbd13e47d750d3dfd77001536dd33, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dc12baacb95f205948f64dc936a47d89ee110117, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8ef35c866f8862df074a49a93b0309725812dea8, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1559, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3752-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3752-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3752-3, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1108

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-azure

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.15.0-1022.22~16.04.1

    Affected versions

    4.11.0-1009.9
    4.11.0-1011.11
    4.11.0-1013.13
    4.11.0-1014.14
    4.11.0-1015.15
    4.11.0-1016.16

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High