QEMU CVE-2021-20181 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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A race condition flaw was found in the 9pfs server implementation of QEMU up to and including 5.2.0. This flaw allows a malicious 9p client to cause a use-after-free error, potentially escalating their privileges on the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity as well as system availability.

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QEMU

CVE References

CVE-2021-20181