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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16872

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16872 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.300000190734863 MEDIUM

A flaw was found in qemu Media Transfer Protocol (MTP). The code opening files in usb_mtp_get_object and usb_mtp_get_partial_object and directories in usb_mtp_object_readdir doesn't consider that the underlying filesystem may have changed since the time lstat(2) was called in usb_mtp_object_alloc, a classical TOCTTOU problem. An attacker with write access to the host filesystem shared with a guest can use this property to navigate the host filesystem in the context of the QEMU process and read any file the QEMU process has access to. Access to the filesystem may be local or via a network share protocol such as CIFS.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
5.300000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11qemu0, 0, 0
Debian:13qemu0, 0, 0
Debian:12qemu0, 0, 0
Debian:14qemu0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Dec 13, 2018 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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