Vulnerabilities > Oracle > Virtualbox

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2008-08-05 CVE-2008-3431 Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Virtualbox 1.6.0/1.6.2
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.
local
low complexity
oracle
8.8