Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20181049000
Revision Date:2018-02-16Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-1049 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:In systemd prior to 234 a race condition exists between .mount and .automount units such that automount requests from kernel may not be serviced by systemd resulting in kernel holding the mountpoint and any processes that try to use said mount will hang. A race condition like this may lead to denial of service, until mount points are unmounted.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-1049
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND The 'systemd' package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '229-4ubuntu21.1').
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