CVE-2012-2652

Severity

44%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

106%

The bdrv_open function in Qemu 1.0 does not properly handle the failure of the mkstemp function, when in snapshot node, which allows local users to overwrite or read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file.

The bdrv_open function in Qemu 1.0 does not properly handle the failure of the mkstemp function, when in snapshot node, which allows local users to overwrite or read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-08-07 20:55:00

Last updated 10 years ago

2014-03-06 04:37:00

Affected Software

QEMU 1.0

1.0

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=commit;h=eba25057b9a5e19d10ace2bc7716667a31297169

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu-stable-0.15.git;a=log

SUSE-SU-2012:1202

50132

Vendor Advisory

50689

DSA-2545

53725

USN-1522-1

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