A vulnerability has been identified in DOSBox, which could be exploited by attackers or malware to bypass security restrictions and potentially compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a design error where the application does not restrict access to the "mount" command in the emulated environment, which could be exploited by malicious binaries to evade the virtual machine and gain unauthorized access to the physical filesystem.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Luigi Auriemma.
ChangeLog
2007-12-11 : Initial release
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