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3 vulnerabilities found for virtualbox by oracle
FKIE_CVE-2008-3431
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-08-05 19:41 - Updated: 2025-10-22 01:15
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| oracle | virtualbox | * |
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CVE-2008-3431 (GCVE-0-2008-3431)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-08-05 19:20 – Updated: 2025-10-22 00:05
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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CVE-2008-3431 (GCVE-0-2008-3431)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2008-08-05 19:20 – Updated: 2025-10-22 00:05
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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