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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:59:35 -0600
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: qemu -runas does not clear
supplementary groups
* [2011-07-12 20:48:59 +0400] Michael Tokarev wrote:
>There's a missing initgroups() call in qemu in the -runas
>argument handling. Details are available on
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/807893
>
>in short, -runas is supposed to reduce privileges to a
>bare minimum (after all initialization is completed),
>but the process still has all the supplementary groups
>which should be dropped too.
>
>Can a CVE id be assigned for this issue?
Sorry, we were contacted directly to provide a CVE name, and I'm not
sure if that was before or after you wrote this mail (probably after).
That bug has been updated with the assigned CVE name, CVE-2011-2527.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/807893/comments/6
Thanks, sorry for missing this.
--
Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team
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