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SUSE: CVE-2017-15038: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-15038: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/09/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/02/2017
Modified
02/04/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kvm
  • suse-upgrade-qemu
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-arm
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-audio-alsa
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-audio-oss
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-audio-pa
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-audio-spice
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-curl
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-iscsi
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-rbd
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-ssh
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-chardev-baum
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-chardev-spice
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-guest-agent
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-hw-display-qxl
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu-pci
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-hw-display-virtio-vga
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-hw-s390x-virtio-gpu-ccw
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-hw-usb-redirect
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ipxe
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ksm
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-lang
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-microvm
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ppc
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-s390
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-s390x
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-seabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-sgabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-skiboot
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-tools
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ui-curses
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ui-gtk
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ui-opengl
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ui-spice-app
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ui-spice-core
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-vgabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-x86

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:2924-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2936-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2946-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2963-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2969-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:3084-1
  • USN-3575-1
  • USN-3575-2
  • DSA-4213
  • CVE-2017-15038
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