CVE-2018-16867

Description

A flaw was found in qemu Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) before version 3.1.0. A path traversal in the in usb_mtp_write_data function in hw/usb/dev-mtp.c due to an improper filename sanitization. When the guest device is mounted in read-write mode, this allows to read/write arbitrary files which may lead do DoS scenario OR possibly lead to code execution on the host.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106195

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16867

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CGCFIFSIWUREEQQOZDZFBYKWZHXCWBZN/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3923-1/

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/12/06/1

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3