[Secure-testing-team] Bug#861348: qemu: CVE-2017-8086: 9pfs: host memory leakage via v9pfs_list_xattr

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: qemu
Version: 1:2.8+dfsg-4
Severity: normal
Tags: security patch upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2017-8086[0]:
9pfs: host memory leakage via v9pfs_list_xattr

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-2017-8086
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8086
[1] http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=4ffcdef4277a91af15a3c09f7d16af072c29f3f2 (v2.9.0-rc4)
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444781

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed, at point of
writing this bugreport only unstable source has been checked.

Regards,
Salvatore