Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package linux-qemu-6.18  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-LINUXQEMU618-15043745
  • published21 Jan 2026
  • disclosed27 May 2021

Introduced: 27 May 2021

CVE-2008-2544  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-668  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Chainguard security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Chainguard:latest.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-qemu-6.18 package and not the linux-qemu-6.18 package as distributed by Chainguard.

Mounting /proc filesystem via chroot command silently mounts it in read-write mode. The user could bypass the chroot environment and gain write access to files, he would never have otherwise.