From ${URL} : Qemu emulator built with the USB Net device emulation support is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference issue. It could occur while processing remote NDIS control message packets, when the USB configuration descriptor object is null. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process instance resulting in DoS. Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg02553.html Reference: ---------- -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302299 This issue was discovered by Qinghao Tang of 360.cn Marvel Team. @maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
fix landed upstream here: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=80eecda8e5d09c442c24307f340840a5b70ea3b9
this is in qemu-2.5.0-r2 and is fine for stable
Added to existing GLSA.
Clean as part of bug #567420
This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201604-01 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01 by GLSA coordinator Yury German (BlueKnight).