CVE request: Qemu: buffer overflow in virtio-serial

[P J P <ppandit () redhat com>]

  Hello,

Qemu emulator built with the virtio-serial vmchannel support is vulnerable to 
a buffer overflow issue. It could occur while exchanging virtio control 
messages between guest & the host.

A malicious guest could use this flaw to corrupt few bytes of Qemu memory 
area, potentially crashing the Qemu process.

Upstream fix:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-07/msg05458.html

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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