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TITLE:
Sun VirtualBox Guest Additions Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37363

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37363/

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:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-271149-1

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