[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.5.1.1 CVE update released

[Michael Roth]

Hi everyone,

A security update to the QEMU 2.5 series is now available at:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.5.1.1.tar.bz2

v2.5.1.1 is now tagged in the official qemu.git repository,
and the stable-2.5 branch has been updated accordingly:

  http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable-2.5

This release includes security fixes for:

  VGA emulation (CVE-2016-3712, CVE-2016-3710)
  EHCI USB emulation (CVE-2015-8558)
  Cadence UART (Xilinx Zynq board emulation)

Please see the changelogs and relevant CVEs for more information, and
update accordingly.

Thank you to everyone involved!

CHANGELOG:

db51dfc: Update version for 2.5.1.1 release (Michael Roth)
5b7236f: cadence_uart: bounds check write offset (Michael S. Tsirkin)
0bcdb63: Revert "ehci: make idt processing more robust" (Gerd Hoffmann)
706bab6: ehci: apply limit to iTD/sidt descriptors (Gerd Hoffmann)
44b86aa: vga: make sure vga register setup for vbe stays intact 
(CVE-2016-3712). (Gerd Hoffmann)
a6e5e5d: vga: update vga register setup on vbe changes (Gerd Hoffmann)
2f2f74e: vga: factor out vga register setup (Gerd Hoffmann)
46aff2c: vga: add vbe_enabled() helper (Gerd Hoffmann)
4f0323d: vga: fix banked access bounds checking (CVE-2016-3710) (Gerd Hoffmann)