Vulnerability in Qemu
CVE-2008-1945
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (38.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 38th percentile — 38.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Qemu — versions 0.9.0
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 8.04, 8.10
- Debian Linux — versions 4.0, 5.0
- openSUSE — versions 10.3, 11.0, 11.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 5.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation — versions 5.0
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server — versions 10, 11
References
- secunia.com/advisories/35062 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44269 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/32088 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9905 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/32063 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/34642 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-776-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/30604 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)