SB2017101956 - Fedora 27 update for qemu

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SB2017101956 - Fedora 27 update for qemu

Published: October 19, 2017 Updated: April 24, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2017101956
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Information disclosure

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.


1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15038)

CWE-ID: CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator). An adjacent attacker can obtain sensitive information from host heap memory via vectors related to reading extended attributes.

2) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15268)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoІ condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in io/channel-websock.c due to memory leak in slow data-channel read operations. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References