CVE-2009-0876 (GCVE-0-2009-0876)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-03-12 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:48
VLAI?
Summary
Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0.0, 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 2.0.6r39760, 2.1.0, 2.1.2, and 2.1.4r42893 on Linux allows local users to gain privileges via a hardlink attack, which preserves setuid/setgid bits on Linux, related to DT_RPATH:$ORIGIN.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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Date Public ?
2009-03-10 00:00
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