PT-2016-7790 · Qemu+3 · Qemu+3

Jann Horn

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Published

2016-12-31

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Updated

2024-06-15

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CVE-2016-9602

CVSS v2.0

9.0

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Qemu versions prior to 2.9
Description The issue is related to an improper link following when Qemu is built with the VirtFS. A privileged user inside the guest could potentially use this flaw to access the host file system beyond the shared folder, which may lead to escalating their privileges on the host.
Recommendations For versions prior to 2.9, update to version 2.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1521
CVE-2016-9602
DLA-1035-1
DLA-1497-1
DLA-965-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2017_1872-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11287-1
SUSE-SU-2017:1774-1
SUSE-SU-2017:2946-1
SUSE-SU-2017:2963-1
SUSE-SU-2017:2969-1
SUSE-SU-2017:3084-1
SUSE-SU-2017_2963-1
USN-3261-1
USN-3268-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Qemu
Suse
Ubuntu