[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 201001-04 ] VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201001-04

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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

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Multiple vulnerabilities in VirtualBox were found, the worst of which

allowing for privilege escalation.

 

Background

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The VirtualBox family provides powerful x86 virtualization products.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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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

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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:

 

* 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

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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

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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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

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[ 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

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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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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 ( -at -) 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