CVE-2007-4311

Publication date

2007-08-13 21:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

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.