[Secure-testing-team] Bug#832619: qemu: CVE-2016-5403: virtio: unbounded memory allocation on host via guest leading to DoS

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: qemu
Version: 1:2.6+dfsg-3
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream patch

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2016-5403[0]:
virtio: unbounded memory allocation on host via guest leading to DoS

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5403
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358359

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore