Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-2974-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2974-1 advisory. Zuozhi Fzz discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB OHCI emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue t...

CVE-2016-2858

QEMU, when built with the Pseudo Random Number Generator PRNG back-end support, allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service process crash via an entropy request, which triggers arbitrary stack based allocation and memory corruption...

CVE-2016-2858: Insufficient Entropy

QEMU, when built with the Pseudo Random Number Generator PRNG back-end support, allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service process crash via an entropy request, which triggers arbitrary stack based allocation and memory corruption...