CVE-2012-2652

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-2652
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-08-07 20:55:03 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe bdrv_open function in Qemu 1.0 does not properly handle the failure of the mkstemp function, when in snapshot node, which allows local users to overwrite or read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.4 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Qemu Qemu 1.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory SA50689 - SUSE update for kvm - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
kvm/qemu-kvm.git - QEMU modified to work with kvm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.kernel.org
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
git.qemu.org Git - qemu-stable-0.15.git/log af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.qemu.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2545-1 qemu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
USN-1522-1: QEMU vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:1202-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
QEMU CVE-2012-2652 Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
kvm/qemu-kvm.git - QEMU modified to work with kvm MITRE git.kernel.org
git.qemu.org Git - qemu-stable-0.15.git/log MITRE git.qemu.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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