PT-2008-5783 · Qemu+1 · Qemu+1

Christian Hoffmann · Published 2008-10-15 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-4553

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions qemu version 0.9.1-5

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files and directories. This is related to the qemu-make-debian-root functionality in qemu on Debian GNU/Linux systems.

Recommendations For qemu version 0.9.1-5, consider restricting access to the qemu-make-debian-root functionality until a patch is available to prevent local users from overwriting arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4553

DSA-1657-1

Affected Products

Debian

Qemu

References · 16

• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/qemu · Exploit
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1657 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4553 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4553 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4553 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4553 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/14/4 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30931 · Note
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235826 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496394 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/13/2 · Note
• http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44831 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32335 · Note