CVE-2017-15038: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 5.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the v9fs_xattrwalk function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host heap memory via vectors related to reading extended attributes.

Affected products

• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.9.1

Published 2017-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.