GLSA 201001-04 VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

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 lt; 3.0.12 gt;= 3.0.12
2 virtualbox-ose lt; 3.0.12 gt;= 3.0.12
3 virtualbox-guest-additions lt; 3.0.12 gt;= 3.0.12
4 virtualbox-ose-additions lt; 3.0.12 gt;= 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
"gt;=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
"gt;=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
"gt;=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
"gt;=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@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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belongs to its owner(s).

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