Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:20161922000
Revision Date:2016-12-29Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-1922 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - low.
Description:QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the TPR optimization for 32-bit Windows guests support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw. It occurs while doing I/O port write operations via hmp interface. In that, 'current_cpu' remains null, which leads to the null pointer dereference. A user or process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU instance, resulting in DoS issue.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-1922
Platform(s):Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) is installed.
  • AND The 'qemu' package in trusty was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22').
  • BACK