Privilege Escalation

qemu is vulnerable to privilege escalation. An improper access control allows an attacker to obtain higher privileges by exploiting the vulnerability while accessing the virtfs metadata files in mapped-file security mode...

USN-3414-1 qemu vulnerabilities

Leo Gaspard discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS access control. A guest attacker could use this issue to elevate privileges inside the guest. CVE-2017-7493 Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWare PVSCSI emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this...

SUSE-SU-2017:1774-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-9330: USB OHCI Emulation in qemu allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service infinite loop by leveraging an incorrect return value bsc1042159. - CVE-2017-8379: Memory leak in the keyboard input...