Vulnerability in Virtualox

CVE-2008-5256

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.

EPSS: 0.004 (27.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Virtualox — versions 1.3.2, 1.3.4, 1.3.6
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References