[Secure-testing-team] Bug#840948: qemu: CVE-2016-8668: net: OOB buffer access in rocker switch emulation

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: qemu
Version: 1:2.6+dfsg-3.1
Severity: normal
Tags: security upstream patch

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2016-8668[0]:
net: OOB buffer access in rocker switch emulation

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-2016-8668
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02501.html
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384896

Regards,
Salvatore