Race Condition Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.10.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007066
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15038  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.10.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. 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.

CVSS Scores

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