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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 08:26:03PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Yes, that's a security fix indeed, but it is, again, of a rather low
> impact.  At max it will lead to qemu process crashing (so a DoS), but
> the thing is that slirp (aka user-mode networking) in qemu should never
> be used for anything serious because it is very slow and has many
> limitations, it is a poor-man bandaind to get networking running
> quick without setting up tap devices and bridges...

Ok. I did not know this. I'm creating issues in Debian BTS for security
vulnerabilities so that maintainers know about them. These are also added to
Debian security-tracker. In some packages maintainer is watching upstream
advisories closely, but this is not always the case.

> I'll fix this for the next upload anyway.

Thank you.

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Henri Salo
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