From ${URL} : Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the 'chardev' backend support is vulnerable to a use after free issue. It could occur while hotplug and unplugging the device in the guest. A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash a Qemu process on the host resulting in DoS. Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg05597.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 is in the 2.8.0 release
Stabilization will be happen as part of bug 601824.
Added to existing GLSA request.
This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201701-49 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).