Gentoo: GLSA-201001-04: VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
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).
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:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201001-04
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.
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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
------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.