[Secure-testing-team] Bug#853002: qemu: CVE-2017-5579: serial: host memory leakage 16550A UART emulation

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

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

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2017-5579[0]:
serial: host memory leakage in 16550A UART emulation

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-2017-5579
[1] http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=8409dc884a201bf74b30a9d232b6bbdd00cb7e2b
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416157

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore