CVE-2008-5256

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-11-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

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.

Affected products

Virtualox: through 2.0.4; 1.3.2, 1.3.4, 1.3.6, 1.3.8, 1.4.0, 1.5.0 (+9)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504149
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32851
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-247326-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:011
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32444
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021384
http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset?new=trunk%2Fsrc%2Flibs%2Fxpcom18a4%2Fipc%2Fipcd%2Fdaemon%2Fsrc%2FipcdUnix.cpp%4013810
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3410
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46826
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504149

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