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CVE-2008-1945

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-08-08 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 8.04, 8.10
• Debian Linux: 4.0, 5.0
• Opensuse: 10.3, 11.0, 11.1
• QEMU: 0.9.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 5.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 5.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 5.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 10, 11

References

• 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

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