CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-3431

Published: Aug 05, 2008 | Modified: Jul 16, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

The VBoxDrvNtDeviceControl function in VBoxDrv.sys in Sun xVM VirtualBox before 1.6.4 uses the METHOD_NEITHER communication method for IOCTLs and does not properly validate a buffer associated with the Irp object, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening the .VBoxDrv device and calling DeviceIoControl to send a crafted kernel address.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Virtualbox Oracle * 1.6.4 (excluding)

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