[Secure-testing-team] Bug#873851: qemu: CVE-2017-13672: vga: OOB read access during display update

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: qemu
Version: 1:2.8+dfsg-6
Severity: important
Tags: upstream security patch

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2017-13672[0]:
vga: OOB read access during display update

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-2017-13672
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13672
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg04684.html
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486560

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore