Race Condition Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,3.1.0-rc3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3006943
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-19489  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 3.1.0-rc3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition v9fs_wstat in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (crash) because of a race condition during file renaming.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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