Information Exposure Affecting qemu package, versions <0.9.1-5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.07% (28th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-QEMU-1557868
- published 12 May 2008
- disclosed 12 May 2008
Introduced: 12 May 2008
CVE-2008-2004 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12
qemu
to version 0.9.1-5 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:12
relevant fixed versions and status.
The drive_init function in QEMU 0.9.1 determines the format of a raw disk image based on the header, which allows local guest users to read arbitrary files on the host by modifying the header to identify a different format, which is used when the guest is restarted.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2004
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-04/msg00675.html
- http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=4277
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11021
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29129
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29963
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30111
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30717
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35062
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29101
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-776-1
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42268
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0194.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:162