[Secure-testing-team] Bug#832767: qemu: CVE-2016-6490: virtio: infinite loop in virtqueue_pop

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

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

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2016-6490[0]:
virtio: infinite loop in virtqueue_pop

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-2016-6490
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg06246.html

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore