Description
A flaw was found in qemu. A host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon where a privileged guest user is able to create a device special file in the shared directory and use it to r/w access host devices.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a qemu
qemu 5.2.0affected
References
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/ebf101955ce8f8d72fba103b5151115a4335de2c ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915823 ↗
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/22/1 ↗
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg05461.html ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0002/ ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 ↗