[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.4.0.1 CVE update released

[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.4.0.1 CVE update released

[Michael Roth]

Hi everyone,

As part of recent planning around stable releases discussed during
KVM Forum, I'm releasing the first of what will be regular (hopefully
not *too* regular) CVE-only stable updates. These updates are
intended to reduce the gap between vulnerability disclosures and
patched/packaged releases.

You can grab the latest release here:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.4.0.1.tar.bz2

Please see the changelog for CVE numbers/details. Users are
encouraged to update as soon as possible.

v2.4.0.1 is now tagged in the official qemu.git repository,
and the stable-2.4 branch has been updated accordingly:

  http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable-2.4

These CVE-only releases are produced as-needed and are on no set
release schedule.

Full stable releases are still tentatively planned to continue as they
(mostly) have in the past: 1 mid-cycle stable update, and 1 stable update
at the end of each release cycle, with freeze dates announced in advance
to pull together important fixes. v2.4.1 is currently planned for
2015-10-20:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.4

Thank you to everyone involved!

CHANGELOG:

83c92b4: Update version for 2.4.0.1 release (Michael Roth)
5a1ccdf: net: avoid infinite loop when receiving packets(CVE-2015-5278) (P J P)
7aa2bca: net: add checks to validate ring buffer pointers(CVE-2015-5279) (P J P)
3a56af1: e1000: Avoid infinite loop in processing transmit descriptor (CVE-2015-6815) (P J P)
efec4dc: vnc: fix memory corruption (CVE-2015-5225) (Gerd Hoffmann)