[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/qemu: security bump to version 3.1.1

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Aug 28 13:04:31 UTC 2019


>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> writes:

 > Fixes the following security issues:
 > CVE-2018-16872: A flaw was found in qemu Media Transfer Protocol (MTP).  The
 > code opening files in usb_mtp_get_object and usb_mtp_get_partial_object and
 > directories in usb_mtp_object_readdir doesn't consider that the underlying
 > filesystem may have changed since the time lstat(2) was called in
 > usb_mtp_object_alloc, a classical TOCTTOU problem.  An attacker with write
 > access to the host filesystem shared with a guest can use this property to
 > navigate the host filesystem in the context of the QEMU process and read any
 > file the QEMU process has access to.  Access to the filesystem may be local
 > or via a network share protocol such as CIFS.

 > Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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