CVE-2007-0998

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-03-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The VNC server implementation in QEMU, as used by Xen and possibly other environments, allows local users of a guest operating system to read arbitrary files on the host operating system via unspecified vectors related to QEMU monitor mode, as demonstrated by mapping files to a CDROM device. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Xen Qemu: all versions

References

http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2802
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2803
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
http://osvdb.org/34304
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0114.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24575
http://secunia.com/advisories/51413
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22967
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017764
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1019

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