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CVE-2007-0998

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2007-03-20 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The VNC server implementation in QEMU, as used by Xen and possibly other environments, allows local users of a guest operating system to read arbitrary files on the host operating system via unspecified vectors related to QEMU monitor mode, as demonstrated by mapping files to a CDROM device. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected Platforms

Redhat Fedora CoreXen QemuRedhat Enterprise Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-264, NVD-CWE-noinfo

References