CVE-2023-2861

Publication date 30 June 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.1 · High

Score breakdown

A flaw was found in the 9p passthrough filesystem (9pfs) implementation in QEMU. The 9pfs server did not prohibit opening special files on the host side, potentially allowing a malicious client to escape from the exported 9p tree by creating and opening a device file in the shared folder.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qemu 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Fixed 1:7.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2.4
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.16
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.28
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

Patch details

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Package Patch details
qemu

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.1 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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