Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| QEMU / qemu | affected 2.7.4 |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98574
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-05/msg03663.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451709
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/278
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98574
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-05/msg03663.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451709
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/278