PSIRT Advisory – INTEL-SA-00157 - Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Corporate Pages Security {"description":"Intel\u00ae Quartus\u00ae Prime Pro. Altera\u2019s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) advisories provide important disclosures, mitigations, and security updates.","title":"PSIRT Advisory \u2013 INTEL-SA-00157"} Altera Security Advisory: INTEL-SA-00157 Product family: Quartus® Impact of vulnerability: Denial of Service Severity rating: Moderate Original release: 07/10/2018 Last revised: 05/06/2026 Summary: Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro before version 18.0.1 ships with an open source component, bottle.py, which is disabled by default. If bottle.py is enabled the system is potentially vulnerable to CVE-2016-9964 . Description: For details on the CVE-2016-9964 please see: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9964 Affected products: Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro before version 18.0.1. Recommendations: Intel recommends that users of Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro update to version 18.0.1. Alternately you may remove bottle by: Ensure that Design Space Explorer II (DSEII) is not running Remove <install root directory>/acds/quartus/common/python/lib/site-packages/bottle.py and bottle-0.12.7-py3.3.egg-info The next time DSEII runs bottle will no longer load. Revision Date Description 1.0 07/10/2018 Initial Release 1.1 05/06/2026 Transfer Advisory to Altera. CVE Name: CVE-2016-9964 Legal Notices and Disclaimers Altera provides these materials as-is, with no express or implied warranties. All products, dates, and figures specified are preliminary based on current expectations, and are subject to change without notice. Altera products and services described may contain design defects or errors known as errata, which may cause the product to deviate from published specifications. Current characterized errata are available on request. Altera products that have met their End of Servicing Updates may no longer receive functional and security updates. Altera technologies’ features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software, or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at https://www.altera.com. Some results may have been estimated or simulated using internal Altera analysis or architecture simulation or modeling and are provided for informational purposes only. Any differences in your system hardware, software, or configuration may affect your actual performance. © Altera Corporation. Altera, the Altera logo, and other Altera marks are trademarks of Altera Corporation in the United States and other countries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.