[Secure-testing-team] Bug#855616: qemu: CVE-2017-6058: net: vmxnet3: OOB NetRxPkt::ehdr_buf access when doing vlan stripping

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: qemu
Version: 1:2.8+dfsg-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream security patch

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2017-6058[0]:
net: vmxnet3: OOB NetRxPkt::ehdr_buf access when doing vlan stripping

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-2017-6058
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6058
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1423358

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore