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[Full-disclosure] [ GLSA 201001-04 ] VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
From: Stefan Behte <craig_at_nospam>Date: Wed Jan 13 2010 - 22:04:02 GMT
To: gentoo-announce@gentoo.org
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Synopsis
Multiple vulnerabilities in VirtualBox were found, the worst of which allowing for privilege escalation.
Background
The VirtualBox family provides powerful x86 virtualization products.
Affected packages
Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 virtualbox-bin < 3.0.12 >= 3.0.12 2 virtualbox-ose < 3.0.12 >= 3.0.12 3 virtualbox-guest-additions < 3.0.12 >= 3.0.12 4 virtualbox-ose-additions < 3.0.12 >= 3.0.12 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 affected packages on all of their supported architectures. -------------------------------------------------------------------
Description
Thomas Biege of SUSE discovered multiple vulnerabilities:
- A shell metacharacter injection in popen() (CVE-2009-3692) and a possible buffer overflow in strncpy() in the VBoxNetAdpCtl configuration tool.
- An unspecified vulnerability in VirtualBox Guest Additions (CVE-2009-3940).
A local, unprivileged attacker with the permission to run VirtualBox could gain root privileges. A guest OS local user could cause a Denial of Service (memory consumption) on the guest OS via unknown vectors.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All users of the binary version of VirtualBox should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
">=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-3.0.12"
All users of the Open Source version of VirtualBox should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
">=app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-3.0.12"
All users of the binary VirtualBox Guest Additions should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
">=app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.0.12"
All users of the Open Source VirtualBox Guest Additions should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
">=app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions-3.0.12"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2009-3692
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3692
[ 2 ] CVE-2009-3940
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3940
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201001-04.xml
Concerns?
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
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