CVE-2017-7493

Publication date

2017-05-17 15:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System(9pfs) support, is vulnerable to an improper access control issue. It could occur while accessing virtfs metadata files in mapped-file security mode. A guest user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges inside guest.