Security Advisory

CVE-2017-8284

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-04-26 14:00:00

Last updated 2024-09-16 18:03:56

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The disas_insn function in target/i386/translate.c in QEMU before 2.9.0, when TCG mode without hardware acceleration is used, does not limit the instruction size, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a modified basic block that injects code into a setuid program, as demonstrated by procmail. NOTE: the vendor has stated "this bug does not violate any security guarantees QEMU makes.

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