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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 15:41:46 -0400
From: <cve-assign@...re.org>
To: <ppandit@...hat.com>
CC: <cve-assign@...re.org>, <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,
	<liqiang6-s@....cn>
Subject: Re: CVE request  Qemu: 9pfs: information leakage via xattribute

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> Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9
> File System(9pfs) support, is vulnerable to an information leakage issue. It
> could occur by accessing xattribute value before it's written to.
> 
> A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to leak host memory bytes.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg01790.html
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=eb687602853b4ae656e9236ee4222609f3a6887d

>> if the guest
>> reads this memory before writing to it, this will leak host heap memory
>> to the guest.

Use CVE-2016-9103.

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