Access Restriction Bypass Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [0.1.0,0.9.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3006969
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Mar 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Mar 2008

CVE-2008-0928  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for qemu-project/qemu.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Qemu 0.9.1 and earlier does not perform range checks for block device read or write requests, which allows guest host users with root privileges to access arbitrary memory and escape the virtual machine.

References

CVSS Scores

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