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CVE-2023-2861

A flaw was found in the 9p passthrough filesystem (9pfs) implementation in QEMU.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
QemuQemu
before 8.1.0

Weakness classification

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