From 7be5ba3d1d968440dd14ce4e4ff77307803d478c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: miwi Ian Jackson reports on the debian-security mailinglist: When a block device read or write request is made by the guest,
- nothing checks that the request is within the range supported by the
- backend, but the code in the backend typically assumes that the
- request is sensible.
Depending on the backend, this can allow the guest to read - and write arbitrary memory locations in qemu, and possibly gain - control over the qemu process, escaping from the - emulation/virtualisation.
+ and write arbitrary memory locations in qemu, and possibly gain + control over the qemu process, escaping from the + emulation/virtualisation.