CVE-2008-1945 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2008-1945?

CVE-2008-1945 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 8 Aug 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1945?

It affects 9 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Opensuse Opensuse, Qemu Qemu, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus and 3 more.

How do I fix CVE-2008-1945?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2008-1945 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1945 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1945, GHSA-vvm6-gvx4-5r3v.