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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.901052
Category:Privilege escalation
Title:Sun VirtualBox 'VBoxNetAdpCtl' Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Summary:Sun VirtualBox is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Sun VirtualBox is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
The flaw is due to the 'VBoxNetAdpCtl' configuration tool improperly
sanitising arguments before passing them in calls to 'popen()'.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation will let attacker to execute arbitrary commands
with root privileges via specially crafted arguments.

Affected Software/OS:
Sun VirtualBox version 3.x before 3.0.8

Solution:
Upgrade to Sun VirtualBox version 3.0.8.

CVSS Score:
7.2

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-3692
BugTraq ID: 36604
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36604
http://www.osvdb.org/58652
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022990
http://secunia.com/advisories/36929
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-268188-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2845
XForce ISS Database: virtualbox-vboxnetadpctl-priv-escalation(53671)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53671
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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