CVE-2008-1945: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 8.04 only; version 8.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 10.3 only; version 11.0 only; version 11.1 only
• Qemu Qemu: version 0.9.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 5.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 5.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 5.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 5.0 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 10 only; version 11 only

Published 2008-08-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.