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48. By Dustin Kirkland  on 2009-05-07

* debian/patches/SECURITY_CVE-2008-1945:
  - SECURITY UPDATE: guest OS users may read arbitrary files on host OS
    + qemu/hw/usb-msd.c: Add image format option for USB mass-storage
      $devices; Author: Aurelien Jarno <email address hidden>
    + CVE-2008-1945: commit 334c0241c006533d1f4ed7e07239ec00b46c6efd
* debian/patches/CVE-2008-2382:
  - SECURITY UPDATE: remote denial of service via crafted message to vnc
    + qemu/vnc.c: Properly handle the case of SetPixelEncodings with a
      length of zero.; Author: Anthony Liguori <email address hidden>
    + CVE-2008-2382: commit 69dd5c9ffd5c0c6a01ad14b9c6a8d7135ccc2b9a
* debian/patches/CVE-2008-4539:
  - SECURITY UPDATE: local users might gain privileges via heap overflow
    + qemu/hw/cirrus_vga.c: fix a heap overflow in Cirrus emulation;
      Author: Aurelien Jarno <email address hidden>
    + CVE-2008-4539: commit 65d35a09979e63541afc5bfc595b9f1b1b4ae069
* debian/patches/CVE-2008-5714:
  - SECURITY UPDATE: vnc password limited to 7, rather than 8 characters
    + qemu/monitor.c: monitor_readline expects buf_size to include the
      terminating \0, but do_change_vnc in monitor.c calls it as though
      it doesn't; Authors: Chris Webb <email address hidden> and
      Anthony Liguori <email address hidden>
    + CVE-2008-5714: commit 2a7e8dda090af586f3d0b3d157054a9e18776a52
* debian/patches/series: updated accordingly

47. By Dustin Kirkland  on 2008-09-24

* debian/patches/evdev_keycode_map.patch, debian/patches/series: ported the
  gtk-vnc patch that fixes evdev keycode mapping (LP: #258389)
* debian/control: explicitly depend on libx11-dev

46. By Dustin Kirkland  on 2008-09-24

[ Dustin Kirkland ]
* Add debian/10-kvm.fdi, debian/org.freedesktop.hal.kvm.policy: hal object
  descriptor and policy file for kvm/virt-hardware
* debian/kvm.install; Put the hal/PolicyKit configuration in the correct
  place (LP: #273764)

[ Martin Pitt ]
* Simplify Dustin's dh_install handling a bit (don't use debian/rules any
  more, install straight with dh_install).

45. By Dustin Kirkland  on 2008-09-22

* debian/kvm-ok: simple script to determine of the cpu supports kvm
  acceleration (LP: #188878)
* debian/rules: install the kvm-ok binary into /usr/bin/kvm-ok

44. By Dustin Kirkland  on 2008-09-22

debian/control: Trivial update to description, to note that KVM works on
both x86 and x86_64 hardware (LP: #225260).

43. By Soren Hansen on 2008-08-28

Switch KVM to use dkms. This makes kernel and userspace match each other
and saves us the trouble of possible ABI bumps when updating kvm.

42. By Soren Hansen on 2008-08-14

* Merge with Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
  - Add dh_installudev rule.
  - Add ppc_rom.bin to needed_bios_files for powerpc target.
  - Build-Depend on "sysv-rc (>= 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu2)" to accomodate
    TearDown.
  - Suggest ubuntu-vm-builder instead of debootstrap.
  - Change kvm-data conflict/replaces version to 68+dfsg-1, to properly
    conflict with the Ubuntu kvm-data package.
  - Suggest kvm-pxe to enable PXE booting.

41. By Soren Hansen on 2008-08-11

Readd dh_installudev rule.

40. By Soren Hansen on 2008-07-23

* Merge with Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
  - Add ppc_rom.bin to needed_bios_files for powerpc target.
  - Comment out PXE rom builds (etherboot is not in main at this point).
  - Build-Depend on "sysv-rc (>= 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu2)" to accomodate
    TearDown.
  - Suggest ubuntu-vm-builder instead of debootstrap.
  - Change kvm-data conflict/replaces version to 68+dfsg-1, to properly
    conflict with the Ubuntu kvm-data package.
* Suggest kvm-pxe to enable PXE booting.

39. By Soren Hansen on 2008-07-04

* Merge with Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
  - Add ppc_rom.bin to needed_bios_files for powerpc target.
  - Comment out PXE rom builds (etherboot is not in main at this point).
  - Build-Depend on "sysv-rc (>= 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu2)" to accomodate
    TearDown.
  - Suggest ubuntu-vm-builder instead of debootstrap.
  - Change kvm-data conflict/replaces version to 68+dfsg-1, to properly
    conflict with the Ubuntu kvm-data package.