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Message-ID: <nycvar.YSQ.7.76.1710061218550.15372@wniryva>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 12:20:09 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen@....fi>
Subject: CVE-2017-15038 Qemu: 9p: virtfs: information disclosure when reading
extended attributes
Hello,
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9
File System(9pfs) support, is vulnerable to an information disclosure issue.
It could occur while accessing extended attributes of a file due to a race
condition.
A user inside guest could use this flaw to disclose uninitialised heap memory
contents on the host.
Upstream patch:
---------------
-> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-10/msg00729.html
This issue was reported by Tuomas Tynkkynen.
Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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