Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:20172620000
Revision Date:2018-07-27Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-2620 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
Description:Quick emulator (QEMU) before 2.8 built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds access issue. The issue could occur while copying VGA data in cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process OR potentially execute arbitrary code on host with privileges of the QEMU process.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-2620
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'qemu' package in cosmic is not affected (note: '1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2').
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'xen' package in cosmic is not affected (note: 'uses system qemu').
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