[Secure-testing-team] Bug#882136: qemu: CVE-2017-16845: ps2: information leakage via post_load routine

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: qemu
Version: 1:2.10.0+dfsg-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-11/msg02982.html

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2017-16845[0]:
| hw/input/ps2.c in Qemu does not validate 'rptr' and 'count' values
| during guest migration, leading to out-of-bounds access.

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-2017-16845
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16845
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-11/msg02982.html

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore