Package: qemu
Severity: important
Tags: security
Fixed: 0.9.1-5

Hi,

The following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for qemu.

CVE-2008-1945[0]:
| 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.

This is already fixed in version 0.9.1-5 in unstable.  Please
coordinate with the security team ([email protected]) to prepare
packages for the stable releases.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1945
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-1945

Thanks,
Mike



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