CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-15038
5.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host heap memory via vectors related to reading extended attributes.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.9.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/06/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-10/msg00729.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/06/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-10/msg00729.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213 www.debian.org