CVE-2008-1945 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html http://secunia.com/advisories/32063 http://secunia.com/advisories/32088 http://secunia.com/advisories/34642 http://secunia.com/advisories/35031 http://secunia.com/advisories/35062 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1799 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:162 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30604 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020959 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-776-1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44269 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9905 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0892.html