CVE-2008-2004 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2004
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Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42268 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_13_sr.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA30111 Secunia Advisory: SA29963 Secunia Advisory: SA30717 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0194.html MLIST http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-04/msg00675.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:162 CONFIRM http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=4277 BID 29101

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