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Sun VirtualBox Guest Additions Denial of Service Vulnerability
Release Date: 2009-11-16 Last Update: 2009-11-18 Views: 3,682
Secunia Advisory SA37363
Where:
Local system
Impact:
DoS,
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch
CVE Reference(s):
Description
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun VirtualBox, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the VirtualBox Guest Additions and can be exploited to exhaust all available kernel memory inside a guest operating system.
Successful exploitation requires that Guest Additions are installed on the guest operating system.
The vulnerability is reported in the following versions:
* Sun xVM VirtualBox Guest Additions 1.6 (all releases)
* Sun xVM VirtualBox Guest Additions 2.0.0, 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 2.0.6, 2.0.8, 2.0.10
* Sun xVM VirtualBox Guest Additions 2.1 (all releases)
* Sun xVM VirtualBox Guest Additions 2.2 (all releases)
* Sun VirtualBox Additions 3.0.0, 3.0.2, 3.0.4, 3.0.6 and 3.0.8
Solution:
Update to Sun xVM VirtualBox version 2.0.12 or Sun VirtualBox version 3.0.10. Please see the vendor's advisory for additional information.
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Thomas Biege of SUSE.
Original Advisory:
Sun:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-271149-1
Thomas Biege:
http://thetoms-random-thoughts.blogspot.com/2009/11/virtualbox-ose-guest-can-trigger-denial.html
Deep Links:
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Subject: Sun VirtualBox Guest Additions Denial of Service Vulnerability
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