CVE-2017-7471
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jul 9, 2018
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 5, 2017
Description
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 files on a shared host directory. 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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
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References
- https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9c6b899f7a46893ab3b671e341a2234e9c0c060e
- GLSA-201706-03vendor-advisory
- 97970vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7471
- [oss-security] 20170419 CVE-2017-7471 Qemu: 9p: virtfs allows guest to change filesystem attributes on hostmailing-list
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