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Gentoo: 201001-04 Normal: Multiple VirtualBox Escalation Issues

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2010
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A variety of flaws within VirtualBox can lead to privilege escalation or service disruptions; impacted users are advised to perform an upgrade.
Multiple vulnerabilities in VirtualBox were found, the worst of which allowing for privilege escalation.

Summary

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).

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Topics Covered

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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 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3692 [ 2 ] CVE-2009-3940 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3940

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201001-04
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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.

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

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Topics Covered

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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.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

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