VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2007-4311

CVSS score6.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.73%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2007-08-13
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The xfer_secondary_pool function in drivers/char/random.c in the Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.35 performs reseed operations on only the first few bytes of a buffer, which might make it easier for attackers to predict the output of the random number generator, related to incorrect use of the sizeof operator.

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