From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 08:50:52 CST

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TITLE:
vbox3 Tcl Script Invokation Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10571

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http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10571/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
vbox3 0.x

DESCRIPTION:
Tobias Stefan Richter has identified a vulnerability in vbox3, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.

The problem is that the included vboxgetty program doesn't drop
permissions correctly before calling a user's tcl script. This can be
exploited to gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted tcl
script.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.1.7 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.1.8 or later.
http://smarden.org/pape/vbox3/install.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tobias Stefan Richter

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