Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in qemu-kvm:
- CVE-2016-8576
qemu-kvm built with the USB xHCI controller emulation support is vulnerable
to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing USB command ring
in xhci_ring_fetch.
- CVE-2016-8577
qemu-kvm built with the virtio-9p back-end support is vulnerable to a memory
leakage issue. It could occur while doing a I/O read operation in
v9fs_read() routine.
- CVE-2016-8578
qemu-kvm built with the virtio-9p back-end support is vulnerable to a null
pointer dereference issue. It could occur while doing an I/O vector
unmarshalling operation in v9fs_iov_vunmarshal() routine.
- CVE-2016-8669
qemu-kvm built with the 16550A UART emulation support is vulnerable to a
divide by zero issue. It could occur while updating serial device parameters
in serial_update_parameters.
For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version
1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u17.
We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: <https://wiki.debian.org/LTS>