CVE-2017-15038

Published: Oct 10, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

5.6

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploitability: 1.1 / Impact: 4.0

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Qemu: Qemu

Qemu

1 product

Qemu

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Qemu Qemu	Up to 2.9.1

Related CWEs

CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.

References (10)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/06/1

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-10/msg00729.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3575-1/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4213

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/06/1