NVD
- Id
- 56436
- Name
- CVE-2007-4311
- 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.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 6.8
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 6.8
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 6.4
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 8.6
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-07
- Published
- 2007-08-13
- Modified Date
- 2011-05-25
- Seq
- 2007-4311