CVE-2008-3431
High · 8.8 CISA KEVCVSS
8.8
EPSS
6.9%
Published
Aug 5, 2008
CISA due date
Mar 24, 2022
The record
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 packages
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