Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20172630000
Revision Date:2018-07-27Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-2630 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:A stack buffer overflow flaw was found in the Quick Emulator (QEMU) before 2.9 built with the Network Block Device (NBD) client support. The flaw could occur while processing server's response to a 'NBD_OPT_LIST' request. A malicious NBD server could use this issue to crash a remote NBD client resulting in DoS or potentially execute arbitrary code on client host with privileges of the QEMU process.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-2630
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: 'code not present').
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