Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201640200000000
Revision Date:2016-05-25Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-4020 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:The patch_instruction function in hw/i386/kvmvapic.c in QEMU does not initialize the imm32 variable, which allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory by accessing the Task Priority Register (TPR).
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-4020
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND qemu package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.1').
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