Bug#504149: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#504149: virtualbox-ose: symlink

2008-11-05 Thread Michael Meskes
tag 504149 pending thanks > I hope our fix is sufficient. The changesets r13788, r13807, r13809, > r13810 should check the permissions. These changesets should apply > to 1.6.6 and 2.0 as well. Thanks a lot Frank. I just put a unified patch into our SVN, a new upload will come pretty soon. Mic

Bug#504149: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#504149: virtualbox-ose: symlink vulnerability due to bad /tmp handling

2008-11-05 Thread Frank Mehnert
Paul et all, On Saturday 01 November 2008, Paul Wise wrote: > By creating a symlink /tmp/.vbox-$USER-ipc/lock an attacker can > overwrite any file owned by any user who starts virtualbox. Starting and > then exiting virtualbox is enough to trigger this, you don't need to > start any virtual machin