CVE-2018-1108

Los controladores de kernel, en versiones anteriores a la 4.17-rc1, son vulnerables a una debilidad en la implementación del kernel de Linux de datos de semilla aleatorios. Los programas, en un estado de arranque temprano, podrían emplear los datos asignados a la semilla antes de que se haya generado lo suficiente.

It was discovered that, when attempting to handle an out-of-memory situation, a null pointer dereference could be triggered in the Linux kernel in some circumstances. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Wen Xu discovered that the XFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate meta-data information. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious xfs image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.