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CVE-2012-2652 (GCVE-0-2012-2652)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-07 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:42
VLAI
Summary
The bdrv_open function in Qemu 1.0 does not properly handle the failure of the mkstemp function, when in snapshot node, which allows local users to overwrite or read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/50132 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu-stable-0.15.git%3Ba=log x_refsource_CONFIRM
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53725 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1522-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git%3B… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2545 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2012-05-28 00:00
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