CVE-2013-2007

The qemu guest agent in Qemu 1.4.1 and earlier, as used by Xen, when started in daemon mode, uses weak permissions for certain files, which allows local users to read and write to these files.

This issue does not affect the kvm package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue does not affect the xen package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue does affect the qemu-kvm package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Future qemu-kvm updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 may address this flaw.

Please note that due to differences in upstream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 versions of qemu guest agent this issue has lower security impact on systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.