CVE-2020-35517 QEMU: virtiofsd: potential privileged host device access from guest

                							

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CVE-2020-35517 QEMU: virtiofsd: potential privileged host device access from guest

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From: P J P &lt;ppandit () redhat com&gt;

Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:42:27 +0530 (IST)

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  Hello,

A potential host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared 
file system daemon (virtiofsd) of the QEMU. Virtio-fs daemon shares host 
directory tree with a guest VM. The said privilege escalation scenario may 
occur if a privileged guest user was to create device special file in the 
shared directory and use it to r/w access host devices. A privileged guest 
user may use this flaw to arbitrarily access (r/w) host files resulting in DoS 
scenario or may potentially escalate privileges on the host.

Upstream patch:
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  -&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg05461.html

* This issue was reported by Alex Xu (CC'd).

* 'CVE-2020-35517' assigned by Red Hat Inc.

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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