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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-1945

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-1945

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/08/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
12/17/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-qemu
  • suse-upgrade-sletc-release

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