[Secure-testing-team] Bug#883625: qemu: CVE-2017-17381: virtio: divide by zero exception while updating rings

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: qemu
Version: 1:2.10.0+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg00166.html

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2017-17381[0]:
virtio: divide by zero exception while updating rings

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-2017-17381
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17381
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg00166.html
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1520782
[3] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071228

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore