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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-35517: Improper Privilege Management

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-35517: Improper Privilege Management

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/28/2021
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-qemu

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