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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201001-04 |
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Severity: Normal |
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Title: VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Date: January 13, 2010 |
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Bugs: #288836, #294678 |
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ID: 201001-04 |
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Synopsis |
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Multiple vulnerabilities in VirtualBox were found, the worst of which |
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allowing for privilege escalation. |
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Background |
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The VirtualBox family provides powerful x86 virtualization products. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 virtualbox-bin < 3.0.12 >= 3.0.12 |
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2 virtualbox-ose < 3.0.12 >= 3.0.12 |
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3 virtualbox-guest-additions < 3.0.12 >= 3.0.12 |
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4 virtualbox-ose-additions < 3.0.12 >= 3.0.12 |
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4 affected packages on all of their supported architectures. |
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Description |
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Thomas Biege of SUSE discovered multiple vulnerabilities: |
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* A shell metacharacter injection in popen() (CVE-2009-3692) and a |
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possible buffer overflow in strncpy() in the VBoxNetAdpCtl |
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configuration tool. |
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* An unspecified vulnerability in VirtualBox Guest Additions |
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(CVE-2009-3940). |
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Impact |
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A local, unprivileged attacker with the permission to run VirtualBox |
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could gain root privileges. A guest OS local user could cause a Denial |
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of Service (memory consumption) on the guest OS via unknown vectors. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All users of the binary version of VirtualBox should upgrade to the |
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latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose |
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">=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-3.0.12" |
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All users of the Open Source version of VirtualBox should upgrade to |
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the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose |
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">=app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-3.0.12" |
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All users of the binary VirtualBox Guest Additions should upgrade to |
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the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose |
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">=app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.0.12" |
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All users of the Open Source VirtualBox Guest Additions should upgrade |
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to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose |
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">=app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions-3.0.12" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2009-3692 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3692 |
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[ 2 ] CVE-2009-3940 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3940 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201001-04.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |
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