Executive Summary

Informations
Name MDVSA-2009:011 First vendor Publication 2009-01-14
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2009-01-14
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.4 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A vulnerability have been discovered and corrected in VirtualBox, affecting versions prior to 2.0.6, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.vbox-qateam-ipc/lock temporary file (CVE-2008-5256).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:011

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 15

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-06-05 Name : Ubuntu USN-707-1 (cupsys)
File : nvt/ubuntu_707_1.nasl
2009-02-18 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:004
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_004.nasl
2009-01-20 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:011 (virtualbox)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_011.nasl
2009-01-20 Name : Ubuntu USN-708-1 (hplip)
File : nvt/ubuntu_708_1.nasl
2008-12-10 Name : Sun xVM VirtualBox Insecure Temporary Files Vulnerability (Linux)
File : nvt/secpod_virtualbox_acquiredaemonlock_vuln_lin_900408.nasl
2008-12-10 Name : Sun xVM VirtualBox Insecure Temporary Files Vulnerability (Win)
File : nvt/secpod_virtualbox_acquiredaemonlock_vuln_win_900407.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
50152 Sun VirtualBox ipcdUnix.cpp AcquireDaemonLock() Function Temporary File Symli...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_virtualbox-090209.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-011.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-02-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_virtualbox-5990.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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