PT-2008-6394 · Oracle · Virtualbox

Paul Wise · Published 2008-11-27 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-5256

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VirtualBox versions prior to 2.0.6

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file. This is due to a problem in the AcquireDaemonLock function in ipcdUnix.cpp.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.0.6, update to version 2.0.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5256

Affected Products

Virtualbox

References · 12

• http://secunia.com/advisories/32851 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5256 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:011 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-247326-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32444 · Patch
• http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog · Patch
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504149 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021384 · Note
• http://virtualbox.org/changeset?new=trunk%2Fsrc%2Flibs%2Fxpcom18a4%2Fipc%2Fipcd%2Fdaemon%2Fsrc%2FipcdUnix.cpp%4013810 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46826 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3410 · Note