Vulnerabilities > SUN > XVM Virtualbox > 1.3.6

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2008-08-05 CVE-2008-3431 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in SUN XVM Virtualbox
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
sun CWE-264
7.2