Secure testing team - Jul 2008 - Bug#490411: CVE-2008-2004: privilege escalation

Package: xen-unstable
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for xen-unstable.

CVE-2008-2004[0]:
| 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.

The patch for qemu can be found here[1].

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-2008-2004
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-2004

[1]
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/vl.c?root=qemu&r1=4277&r2=4276&pathrev=4277