Executive Summary

Summary
Title Sun Alert 247326 Insecure Temporary File Creation Security Vulnerability in Sun xVM VirtualBox
Informations
Name SUN-247326 First vendor Publication 2008-12-10
Vendor Sun Last vendor Modification 2008-12-10
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

Product: Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0

An insecure temporary file creation security vulnerability in Sun xVM VirtualBox may allow a local unprivileged user to create or overwrite arbitrary files, with the access privileges of the user running the VirtualBox.

Sun acknowledges with thanks, Debian for bringing this issue to our attention.

This issue is referenced in the following document:


State: Resolved
First released: 10-Dec-2008

Original Source

Url : http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/sun_alert_247326_insecure_temporary

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