CVE-2020-35517

A flaw was found in qemu. A host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon where a privileged guest user is able to create a device special file in the shared directory and use it to r/w access host devices. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

This issue does not affect the version of the qemu-kvm package as shipped with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7. Virtio-fs is fairly new and is not built in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

This issue affects the version of the qemu-kvm package as shipped with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Future qemu-kvm package updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 may address this issue.

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