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Secunia Security Advisory 34232

Secunia Security Advisory 34232
Posted Mar 11, 2009
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Sun xVM VirtualBox, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

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Secunia Security Advisory 34232

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TITLE:
Sun xVM VirtualBox Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34232

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34232/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun xVM VirtualBox, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in an
unspecified package, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary
commands with root privileges.

Successful exploitation requires permission to run VirtualBox.

The vulnerability is reported in 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 for the Linux
platform.

NOTE: Only packages marked as "All distributions" are affected by
this issue.

SOLUTION:
Update to Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0.6r43001 or 2.1.4r43001.
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html#linux

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-254568-1

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About:
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everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

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http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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