CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-1945

2.1 LOW Published 2008-08-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-08-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

QEMU 0.9.0 does not properly handle changes to removable media, which allows guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS by using the diskformat: parameter in the -usbdevice option to modify the disk-image header to identify a different format, a related issue to CVE-2008-2004.

Affected configurations

• qemu qemu 0.9.0 • opensuse opensuse 10.3 • opensuse opensuse 11.0 • opensuse opensuse 11.1 • suse linux enterprise server 10 • suse linux enterprise server 11 • debian debian linux 4.0 • debian debian linux 5.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.10 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux eus 5.2 • redhat enterprise linux server 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 5.0

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