Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201699230000000
Revision Date:2016-12-23Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-9923 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
Description:Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the 'chardev' backend support is vulnerable to a use after free issue. It could occur while hotplug and unplugging the device in the guest. A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash a Qemu process on the host resulting in DoS.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-9923
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND qemu: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue.
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