Security Advisory

CVE-2014-4422

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-09-18 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 11:12:35
Assigner apple
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The kernel in Apple iOS before 8 and Apple TV before 7 uses a predictable random number generator during the early portion of the boot process, which allows attackers to bypass certain kernel-hardening protection mechanisms by using a user-space process to observe data related to the random numbers.