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TITLE:
Sun VirtualBox "VBoxNetAdpCtl" Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36929

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36929/

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

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

Successful exploitation requires permissions to run VirtualBox.

The vulnerability is reported in Sun VirtualBox 3.0.0, 3.0.2, 3.0.4
and 3.0.6, for the Solaris x86, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.0.8.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Thomas Biege of SUSE Linux.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Sun:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-268188-1

VirtualBox:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

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