CVE-2017-15038 — Race Condition in Qemu

CWE-362 — Race ConditionCWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure11 documents7 sources
Severity
5.6MEDIUMNVD
OSV4.4
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.06%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
QemuDebian Qemu
Timeline
PublishedOct 10
Latest updateMay 14

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 1.1 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/qemu< qemu 1:2.10.0+dfsg-2 (bookworm)
▶Debianqemu/qemu< 1:2.10.0+dfsg-2+3
▶Ubuntuqemu/qemu< 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.39+3
▶NVDqemu/qemu2.9.1

Patches

Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: lists.gnu.org ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-wvr5-3fwj-8f26: Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function in hw/9pfs/9p↗2022-05-14
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OSV
qemu regression↗2018-03-05
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OSV
qemu vulnerabilities↗2018-02-20
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OSV
CVE-2017-15038: Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function in hw/9pfs/9p↗2017-10-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
QEMU regression↗2018-03-05
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Ubuntu
QEMU vulnerabilities↗2018-02-20
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Red Hat
Qemu: 9p: virtfs: information disclosure when reading extended attributes↗2017-10-04
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Debian
CVE-2017-15038: qemu - Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-15038 Qemu: 9p: virtfs: information disclosure when reading extended attributes↗2017-10-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-15038 Qemu: 9p: virtfs: information disclosure when reading extended attributes [fedora-all]↗2017-10-06
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