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CVSSv2

CVE-2015-8556

Published: 24/03/2017 Updated: 27/03/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 1000
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gentoo QEMU package prior to 2.5.0-r1.

Vulnerability Trend

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Exploits

/* == virtfshell == * * Some distributions make virtfs-proxy-helper from QEMU either SUID or * give it CAP_CHOWN fs capabilities This is a terrible idea While * virtfs-proxy-helper makes some sort of flimsy check to make sure * its socket path doesn't already exist, it is vulnerable to TOCTOU * * This should spawn a root shell eventually ...