CVE-2008-5256: Virtualox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The AcquireDaemonLock function in ipcdUnix.cpp in Sun Innotek VirtualBox before 2.0.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.vbox-$USER-ipc/lock temporary file.

Affected products

• Virtualox Virtualox: up to and including 2.0.4; version 1.3.2 only; version 1.3.4 only; version 1.3.6 only; version 1.3.8 only; version 1.4.0 only; …

Published 2008-11-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.