cve-2016-9602
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-04-26 19:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:59
Severity ?
7.6 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Qemu before version 2.9 is vulnerable to an improper link following when built with the VirtFS. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to access host file system beyond the shared folder and potentially escalating their privileges on a host.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/17/12Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95461Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037604Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9602Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-01/msg06225.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg04347.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-01Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
unspecifiedQemu
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