CVE-2016-7116
medium
CVSS v3
6.0
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.0
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to access host files outside the export path via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified string.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
60%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-3.1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-3.1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-3.1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-3.1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-3.1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=56f101ecce0eafd09e2daf1c4eeb1377d6959261
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/30/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/30/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92680
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg03917.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg04231.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7116.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7116
CWEs
CWE-22
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.