Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.precise:def:20158701000
Revision Date:2016-12-29Version:1
Title:CVE-2015-8701 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) - medium.
Description:QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Rocker switch emulation support is vulnerable to an off-by-one error. It happens while processing transmit (tx) descriptors in 'tx_consume' routine, if a descriptor was to have more than allowed (ROCKER_TX_FRAGS_MAX=16) fragments. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to cause memory leakage on the host or crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS issue.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2015-8701
Platform(s):Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) is installed.
  • AND While related to the CVE in some way, the 'qemu-kvm' package in precise is not affected (note: 'code not present').
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