vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-15038: qemu, qemu-kvm -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 9, 2017
Added
May 31, 2018
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host heap memory via vectors related to reading extended attributes.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-qemudebian-upgrade-qemu-kvm
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