Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-QEMU-624108
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed24 Mar 2017

Introduced: 24 Mar 2017

CVE-2015-8556  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu package and not the qemu package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gentoo QEMU package before 2.5.0-r1.