[Secure-testing-team] Bug#823830: qemu: CVE-2016-3710 CVE-2016-3712

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: qemu
Version: 2.1+dfsg-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerabilities were published for qemu.

CVE-2016-3710[0]:
incorrect banked access bounds checking in vga module

CVE-2016-3712[1]:
Out-of-bounds read when creating weird vga screen surface

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

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3710
[1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3712
[2] http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-179.html

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore