[Secure-testing-team] Bug#852232: qemu: CVE-2016-10155

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

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

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2016-10155[0]:
|watchdog: memory leakage in virtual hardware watchdog wdt_i6300esb;
|CVE for the memory consumption issue, not an information disclosure
|issue

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-2016-10155
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10155
[1] http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=eb7a20a3616085d46aa6b4b4224e15587ec67e6e

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore