CVE-2008-0928

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Qemu 0.9.1 and earlier does not perform range checks for block device read or write requests, which allows guest host users with root privileges to access arbitrary memory and escape the virtual machine.

Affected products

QEMU: 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.4, 0.1.5 (+23)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html
http://marc.info/?l=debian-security&m=120343592917055&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/29081
http://secunia.com/advisories/29129
http://secunia.com/advisories/29136
http://secunia.com/advisories/29172
http://secunia.com/advisories/29963
http://secunia.com/advisories/34642
http://secunia.com/advisories/35031
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1799
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:162
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:016

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