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Bug 427820 (CVE-2011-2527) - app-emulation/qemu-user: Fails to drop group privileges with -runas option (CVE-2011-2527)
Summary: app-emulation/qemu-user: Fails to drop group privileges with -runas option (C...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2011-2527
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor
Assignee: Gentoo Security
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Whiteboard: B4 [ebuild]
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Depends on: 508098
Blocks:
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Reported: 2012-07-23 23:08 UTC by GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot
Modified: 2014-05-30 04:40 UTC (History)
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Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2012-07-23 23:08:28 UTC 
CVE-2011-2527 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2527):
  The change_process_uid function in os-posix.c in Qemu 0.14.0 and earlier
  does not properly drop group privileges when the -runas option is used,
  which allows local guest users to access restricted files on the host.


Upstream bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/807893
Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-12-08 06:12:59 UTC 
This affects current app-emulation/qemu-user ebuilds in the tree (but not app-emulation/qemu).
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2014-05-30 04:40:44 UTC 
qemu-user has been removed from the tree as its functionality has been superseded by the combined app-emulation/qemu package.  if you find the qemu package does not support something that the qemu-user package did, please file a new bug explicitly detailing things so we can get it added.