cvelistv5 - cve-2017-7493

cve-2017-7493

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-05-17 15:00

Modified

2024-08-05 16:04

Severity ?

Summary

Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System(9pfs) support, is vulnerable to an improper access control issue. It could occur while accessing virtfs metadata files in mapped-file security mode. A guest user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges inside guest.

References

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/278	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98574	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.com	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451709	Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-05/msg03663.html	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	QEMU	qemu

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Vulnerability from cvelistv5

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