4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
29.5%
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.
Author | Note |
---|---|
kees | this follows CVE-2008-2004 chronologically. xen-utils-3.x is in universe. |
mdeslaur | patch is xen-qemu-usbdisk-no-auto-format.patch in RHEL5 |