[Secure-testing-team] Bug#859854: qemu: CVE-2017-7377

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: qemu
Version: 1:2.8+dfsg-3
Severity: important
Tags: security patch upstream fixed-upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2017-7377[0]:
9pfs: host memory leakage via v9fs_create

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-2017-7377
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7377
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg05449.html
[2] http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=d63fb193e71644a073b77ff5ac6f1216f2f6cf6e

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore