Oval Definition:
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201789030000000
Revision Date
:
2017-05-11
Version
:
1
Title
:
CVE-2017-8903 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description
:
Xen through 4.8.x on 64-bit platforms mishandles page tables after an IRET hypercall, which might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS, aka XSA-213.
Family
:
unix
Class
:
vulnerability
Status
:
Reference(s)
:
CVE-2017-8903
Platform(s)
:
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s)
:
Definition Synopsis
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
AND
xen package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '4.6.5-0ubuntu1.1').
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