Description
Finit provides fast init for Linux systems. Finit's urandom plugin has a heap buffer overwrite vulnerability at boot which leads to it overwriting other parts of the heap, possibly causing random instabilities and undefined behavior. The urandom plugin is enabled by default, so this bug affects everyone using Finit 4.2 or later that do not explicitly disable the plugin at build time. This bug is fixed in Finit 4.12. Those who cannot upgrade or backport the fix to urandom.c are strongly recommended to disable the plugin in the call to the `configure` script.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| troglobit | finit | >= 4.2, < 4.12 | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | finit | 4.12-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | finit | 4.12-1 | — |
| Debian 12 | finit | No fix yet | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | finit | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | finit | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 25.10 | finit | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | finit | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | finit | No fix yet | — |