Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System(9pfs) support, is vulnerable to an improper access control issue. It could occur while accessing virtfs metadata files in mapped-file security mode. A guest user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges inside guest.
References
Link Resource
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/278 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98574 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451709 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-05/msg03663.html Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03 Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2017-05-17T15:00:00

Updated: 2018-09-07T09:57:01

Reserved: 2017-04-05T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-7493

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-05-17T15:29:00.143

Modified: 2020-10-23T16:28:26.397


Link: CVE-2017-7493

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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