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CVE-2021-20181

A race condition flaw was found in the 9pfs server implementation of QEMU up to and including 5.2.0.

Impact

A race condition flaw was found in the 9pfs server implementation of QEMU up to and including 5.2.0. This flaw allows a malicious 9p client to cause a use-after-free error, potentially escalating their privileges on the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity as well as system availability.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
QemuQemu
through 5.2.0
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 9.0, 10.0

Weakness classification

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