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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201001-4

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201001-4
Posted Jan 14, 2010
Authored by Gentoo | Site security.gentoo.org

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201001-4 - Multiple vulnerabilities in VirtualBox were found, the worst of which allowing for privilege escalation. Versions less than 3.0.12 are affected.

tags | advisory, vulnerability
systems | linux, gentoo
advisories | CVE-2009-3692, CVE-2009-3940
SHA-256 | 3606c9f3bb210a3c7c931fc18ff5f61ea8e172627b138ac29e2bb607f42a5d39

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201001-4

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Severity: Normal
Title: VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 13, 2010
Bugs: #288836, #294678
ID: 201001-04

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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
=================

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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.
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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).

Impact
======

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
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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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