[Secure-testing-team] Bug#874606: qemu: CVE-2017-14167: i386: multiboot OOB access while loading guest kernel image

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

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

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for qemu.

CVE-2017-14167[0]:
i386: multiboot OOB access while loading guest kernel image

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-2017-14167
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14167
[1] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-09/msg01483.html
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489375

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore