5.6
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-15038

Published: 10/10/2017 Updated: 07/09/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 1.9 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.6 | Impact Score: 4 | Exploitability Score: 1.1
VMScore: 169
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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Several security issues were fixed in QEMU ...
USN-3575-1 introduced a regression in QEMU ...
Debian Bug report logs - #877890 qemu: CVE-2017-15038: 9p: virtfs: information disclosure when reading extended attributes Package: src:qemu; Maintainer for src:qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 18:36:02 UTC ...
Debian Bug report logs - #886532 Coming updates for meltdown/spectre Package: qemu; Maintainer for qemu is Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for qemu is src:qemu (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Nigel Kukard <nkukard@lbsdnet> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 12:15:02 UTC Severity: grave Fo ...
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu, a fast processor emulator CVE-2017-15038 Tuomas Tynkkynen discovered an information leak in 9pfs CVE-2017-15119 Eric Blake discovered that the NBD server insufficiently restricts large option requests, resulting in denial of service CVE-2017-15124 Daniel Berrange discovered that t ...
Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function in hw/9pfs/9pc 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 ...