CVE-2007-0998

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2007-03-14
Bugzilla:
230295: CVE-2007-0998 HVM guest VNC server allows compromise of entire host OS by any VNC console user

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2007-0998 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (xen) RHSA-2007:0114 2007-03-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization 5 (xen) RHSA-2007:0114 2007-03-14

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