Vulnerability CVE-2008-5256
Published: 2008-11-26   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The AcquireDaemonLock function in ipcdUnix.cpp in Sun Innotek VirtualBox before 2.0.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.vbox-$USER-ipc/lock temporary file.

Type:

CWE-59

 (Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.4/10
6.4/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Virtualox -> Virtualox 

 References:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32444
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46826
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3410
http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset?new=trunk%2Fsrc%2Flibs%2Fxpcom18a4%2Fipc%2Fipcd%2Fdaemon%2Fsrc%2FipcdUnix.cpp%4013810
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021384
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:011
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-247326-1
http://secunia.com/advisories/32851
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504149
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