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qemu — security advisory
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.
- Products
- qemu
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.9.1-5
- CVEs
- CVE-2008-1945
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1945
qemu
Fixed versions: 0.9.1-5
qemu
Fixed versions: 0.9.1-5
qemu
Fixed versions: 0.9.1-5
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1945",
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:24.528172007Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 416766,
"published_at": "2008-08-08T19:41:00+00:00"
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