Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.precise:def:20158744000
Revision Date:2016-12-29Version:1
Title:CVE-2015-8744 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) - medium.
Description:QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to crash issue. It occurs when a guest sends a Layer-2 packet smaller than 22 bytes. A privileged (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2015-8744
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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