CVE-2008-1945

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2008-08-07
Bugzilla:
445844: CVE-2008-1945 qemu/kvm/xen: add image format options for USB storage and removable media

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-1945 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (xen) RHSA-2008:0892 2008-10-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization 5 (xen) RHSA-2008:0892 2008-10-01

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