CVE-2008-3431 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3431
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Description: The VBoxDrvNtDeviceControl function in VBoxDrv.sys in Sun xVM VirtualBox before 1.6.4 uses the METHOD_NEITHER communication method for IOCTLs and does not properly validate a buffer associated with the Irp object, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening the \\.\VBoxDrv device and calling DeviceIoControl to send a crafted kernel address.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44202 SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-240095-1 ST 1020625 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4107 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31361 MISC http://www.coresecurity.com/content/virtualbox-privilege-escalation-vulnerability MILW0RM http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6218 CONFIRM http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495095/100/0/threaded BID 30481

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