Security Advisory

CVE-2008-5256

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-11-27 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:49:12
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.