Comment 73 for bug 1449062

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Daniel Berrange (berrange) wrote : Re: qemu-img calls need to be restricted by ulimit (CVE-2015-5162)

Yes, *any* qemu-img command that you run without providing '-f' will try to guess the image format. Rather than trying to figure out whether a particular invokation may or may not be susceptible to attack, the safe approach is to use '-f' every time.