Re: [kvm-devel] QEMU "drive_init()" Disk Format Security Bypass

[Daniel P. B. <ber...@re...>]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 05:02:28PM +0300, Eren T?rkay wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> An advisory about $subject was released today by secunia. The security flaw 
> was fixed in QEmu SVN repository.
> 
> Kvm uses some of the old version of qemu that I can't backport patch I grabbed 
> from qemu svn repository. Could you look at this issue and provide a patch?

KVM is synced to latest CVS version of QEMU on a regular basis.

> http://secunia.com/advisories/30111/
> 
> Svn commit: 
> http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=4277

If you look at the KVM userspace code you'll see this patch is already
included:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/kvm-userspace.git;a=commit;h=ce486fc1116eb53d40635be926bfa147ad520908

Regards,
Daniel
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