Bug 1413929 (CVE-2016-9602) - CVE-2016-9602 Qemu: 9p: virtfs allows guest to access host filesystem
Summary: CVE-2016-9602 Qemu: 9p: virtfs allows guest to access host filesystem
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-9602
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1413945 1525813
Blocks: 1403761
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-01-17 10:57 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:46 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: qemu 2.9
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:05:36 UTC

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Proposed upstream patch v1 (1.69 KB, patch)
2017-01-17 11:01 UTC, Prasad Pandit 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Prasad Pandit 2017-01-17 10:57:42 UTC 
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9
File System(9pfs) support, is vulnerable to an improper link following issue.
It could occur while accessing symbolic link files on a shared host directory.

A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to access host file system
beyond the shared folder and potentially escalating their privileges on a host.

Upstream patches:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-01/msg06225.html
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg04347.html

Reference:
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  -> http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup
  -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/17/12
Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2017-01-17 10:57:50 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Jann Horn (Google Project Zero)
Comment 2 Prasad Pandit 2017-01-17 11:01:50 UTC 
Created attachment 1241674 [details]
Proposed upstream patch v1
Comment 3 Prasad Pandit 2017-01-17 12:12:51 UTC 
Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1413945]
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