CVE-2020-35517
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-01-28 19:13
Modified
2024-08-04 17:02
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw was found in qemu. A host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon where a privileged guest user is able to create a device special file in the shared directory and use it to r/w access host devices.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915823Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/ebf101955ce8f8d72fba103b5151115a4335de2cPatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg05461.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0002/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/22/1Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/aqemu
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