CVE-2007-0998 (GCVE-0-2007-0998)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-03-20 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 12:43
VLAI
Summary
The VNC server implementation in QEMU, as used by Xen and possibly other environments, allows local users of a guest operating system to read arbitrary files on the host operating system via unspecified vectors related to QEMU monitor mode, as demonstrated by mapping files to a CDROM device. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/51413 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22967 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1021 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1019 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0114.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://osvdb.org/34304 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1020 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2802 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2803 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/24575 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017764 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2007-03-14 00:00
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