Executive Summary

Summary
Title Sun Alert 254568 Security Vulnerability in Sun xVM VirtualBox for the Linux Platform may Lead to Escalation of Privileges
Informations
Name SUN-254568 First vendor Publication 2009-03-10
Vendor Sun Last vendor Modification 2010-01-21
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:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Product: VirtualBox 2

A security vulnerability in certain packages shipped with Sun xVMVirtualBox for the Linux platform may allow local unprivileged users,who are authorized to run VirtualBox, to execute arbitrary commandswith root privileges.

State: Resolved
First released: 10-Mar-2009

Original Source

Url : http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/sun_alert_254568_security_vulnerability

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 7

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
52580 Sun xVM VirtualBox for Linux Unspecified Local Privilege Escalation