[Secure-testing-team] Bug#865754: qemu: CVE-2017-9503: megasas: null pointer dereference while processing megasas command

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

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

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2017-9503[0]:
| QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host
| Bus Adapter emulation support, allows local guest OS privileged users
| to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU
| process crash) via vectors involving megasas command processing.

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-2017-9503
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9503
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459477
[2] https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-9503.html
[3] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043296

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Quickly
checked only the stretch (and sid) version, but not jessie. If
affected this would still rather be no-dsa.

Regards,
Salvatore