CVE-2017-15038

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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-10/msg00729.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/06/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3