[Secure-testing-team] Bug#860785: qemu: CVE-2017-7471: 9p: virtfs allows guest to change filesystem attributes on host

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

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

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2017-7471[0]:
9p: virtfs allows guest to change filesystem  attributes on host

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-2017-7471
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7471
[1] http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=9c6b899f7a46893ab3b671e341a2234e9c0c060e

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. AFAICT it is
not yet included in stable-2.8.

Regards,
Salvatore