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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-5256 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2008-5256 |
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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. |
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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46826 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-247326-1 ST 1021384 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32851 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:011 CONFIRM http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset?new=trunk%2Fsrc%2Flibs%2Fxpcom18a4%2Fipc%2Fipcd%2Fdaemon%2Fsrc%2FipcdUnix.cpp%4013810 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504149 BID 32444 |
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