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openSUSE Security Update : virtualbox (virtualbox-513)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40149

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Insufficient checks on temporary files could allow users to trick others into overwriting arbitrary files (CVE-2008-5256).

Solution

Update the affected virtualbox packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412658

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448240

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40149

File Name: suse_11_0_virtualbox-090209.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-ose, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-ose-guest-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5256

CWE: 59