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.
References
- 247326 vendor-advisory
- http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
- 32851 third-party-advisory
- http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset?new=trunk%2Fsrc%2Flibs%2Fxpcom18a4%2Fipc%2Fipcd%2Fdaemon%2Fsrc%2FipcdUnix.cpp%4013810
- ADV-2008-3410 vdb-entry
- 1021384 vdb-entry
- SUSE-SR:2009:004 vendor-advisory
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504149
- sun-virtualbox-ipcdunix-symlink(46826) vdb-entry
- 32444 vdb-entry
- MDVSA-2009:011 vendor-advisory