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CVE-2008-3431

HIGH CVSS: 8.8 Published: 2008-08-05 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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 Platforms

Oracle Virtualbox

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References