CVE-2011-2527

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Published: June 21, 2012 at 03:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:31 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorQEMU

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.4%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

QEMU · Qemu

95%

v ≤ 0.14.00.1.0 0.1.1 0.1.2 0.1.3 0.1.4 0.1.5 0.1.6 0.10.0 0.10.1 0.10.2 0.10.3 0.10.4 0.10.5 0.10.6 0.11.00.11.0 rc00.11.0 rc10.11.0 rc20.11.0-rc0 0.11.0-rc1 0.11.0-rc2 0.11.1 0.12.0 0.12.0 rc1 0.12.0 rc2 0.12.1 0.12.2 0.12.3 0.12.4 0.12.5 0.13.0 0.13.0 rc0 0.13.0 rc1 0.14.0 rc0 0.14.0 rc1 0.14.0 rc2 0.14.1 0.15.0 rc1 0.15.0 rc2 0.2.0 0.3.0 0.4.0 0.4.1 0.4.2 0.4.3 0.6.0 0.6.1 0.7.0 0.7.1 0.7.2 0.8.0 0.8.1 0.8.2 0.9.0 0.9.1 0.9.1-5

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (16)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081972.html

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-02/msg00009.html

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT

Source: [email protected]

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1531.html