GLSA 201001-04: VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	01/13/2010
Bugs:	#288836, #294678
ID:	201001-04

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

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-emulation/virtualbox-bin	< 3.0.12	>= 3.0.12	All supported architectures
app-emulation/virtualbox-ose	< 3.0.12	>= 3.0.12	All supported architectures
app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions	< 3.0.12	>= 3.0.12	All supported architectures
app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions	< 3.0.12	>= 3.0.12	All supported architectures

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

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?

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