[Secure-testing-team] Bug#877890: qemu: CVE-2017-15038: 9p: virtfs: information disclosure when reading extended attributes

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: qemu
Version: 1:2.10.0+dfsg-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2017-15038[0]:
|Qemu: 9p: virtfs: information disclosure when reading extended
|attributes

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-2017-15038
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15038
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499110
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-10/msg00729.html
[3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/06/1

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore