Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20158817000
Revision Date:2016-12-29Version:1
Title:CVE-2015-8817 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
Description:QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built to use 'address_space_translate' to map an address to a MemoryRegionSection is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur while doing pci_dma_read/write calls. Affects QEMU versions >= 1.6.0 and <= 2.3.1. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the guest instance resulting in DoS.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2015-8817
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'qemu' package in xenial is not affected (note: '1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu4').
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