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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.0 Medium

CVE-2023-2861

Qemu: 9pfs: improper access control on special files

Description

A flaw was found in the 9p passthrough filesystem (9pfs) implementation in QEMU. The 9pfs server did not prohibit opening special files on the host side, potentially allowing a malicious client to escape from the exported 9p tree by creating and opening a device file in the shared folder.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

qemu

Default version status: affected

  • 8.1.0-rc0 to < *unaffected

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