Information Disclosure

xen is vulnerable to information disclosure. The vulnerability exists as a flaw was found in the QEMU block format auto-detection, when running fully-virtualized guests and using Qemu images written on removable media USB storage, 3.5" disks. Privileged users of such fully-virtualized guests DomU...

Information Disclosure

xen is vulnerable to information disclosure. A security vulnerability was discovered in the QEMU block format auto-detection, when running fully-virtualized guests. Such fully-virtualized guests, with a raw formatted disk image, were able to write a header to that disk image describing another...

qemu -- "drive_init()" Disk Format Security Bypass

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in QEMU, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions. The vulnerability is caused due to the "driveinit" function in vl.c determining the format of a disk from data contained in the disk's header. This...