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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35517

A flaw was found in qemu. A host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon where a privileged guest user is able...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

A flaw was found in qemu. A host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon where a privileged guest user is able to create a device special file in the shared directory and use it to r/w access host devices.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 qemu

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:5.2+dfsg-5"}]}]

Debian:13 qemu

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:5.2+dfsg-5"}]}]

Debian:14 qemu

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:5.2+dfsg-5"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org