From ${URL} : Qemu emulator built with the NE2000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu instance resulting in DoS. Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg06126.html Reference: ---------- -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/8 @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.
err..it was already filed as 573816 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 573816 ***