CVE-2008-1945

LOW 2.1CVE-2008-1945 · Published 08/08/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-1945 is a LOW (CVSS 2.1) vulnerability affecting qemu (qemu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.47%, higher than 40.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
qemu qemu	`= 0.9.0`	No fix yet

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.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html · Mailing List
secunia.com/advisories/32063 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/32088 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/34642 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/35031 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/35062 · Third Party Advisory
debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1799 · Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com/security/advisories · Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/30604 · Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com/id · Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com/usn/usn-776-1 · Third Party Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44269 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

qemu

= 0.9.0

No fix yet

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