Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.artful:def:20169776000
Revision Date:2016-12-29Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-9776 on Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) - low.
Description:QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while receiving packets in 'mcf_fec_receive'. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this issue to crash the QEMU process on the host leading to DoS.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-9776
Platform(s):Ubuntu 17.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'qemu' package in artful is not affected (note: '1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2').
  • BACK