From ${URL} : Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the ESP/NCR53C9x controller emulation support is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. The controller uses 16-byte FIFO buffer the information transfer. The OOB r/w occurs while reading/writing to this buffer in esp_reg_read() and esp_reg_write() routines. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process resulting in DoS OR potentially leverage it to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the Qemu process on the host. Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg01507.html @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.
This was addressed in CVE-2016-5238 as one vulnerability. Please see bug 584918. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 584918 ***