CVE-2016-7116

Medium

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to access host files outside the export path via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified string.

SeverityMedium

CVSS6.0

Exploit probability—

Product

Qemu

PublishedDec 10, 2016

First seenDec 10, 2016

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
qemu qemu	v ≤ 2.6.2, 2.7.0	—
debian debian_linux	8.0	—

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