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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="201001-04">
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<title>VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
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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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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">virtualbox-bin virtualbox-ose virtualbox-guest-additions virtualbox-ose-additions</product>
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<announced>January 13, 2010</announced>
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<revised>January 13, 2010: 01</revised>
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<bug>288836</bug>
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<bug>294678</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="app-emulation/virtualbox-bin" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">3.0.12</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">3.0.12</vulnerable>
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</package>
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<package name="app-emulation/virtualbox-ose" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">3.0.12</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">3.0.12</vulnerable>
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</package>
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<package name="app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">3.0.12</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">3.0.12</vulnerable>
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</package>
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<package name="app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">3.0.12</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">3.0.12</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>
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The VirtualBox family provides powerful x86 virtualization products.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>
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Thomas Biege of SUSE discovered multiple vulnerabilities:
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</p>
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<ul><li>A shell metacharacter injection in popen() (CVE-2009-3692) and
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a possible buffer overflow in strncpy() in the VBoxNetAdpCtl
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configuration tool.</li>
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<li>An unspecified vulnerability in VirtualBox
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Guest Additions (CVE-2009-3940).</li>
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</ul>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>
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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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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>
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There is no known workaround at this time.
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</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-3.0.12"</code>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-3.0.12"</code>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.0.12"</code>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions-3.0.12"</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3692">CVE-2009-3692</uri>
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<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3940">CVE-2009-3940</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:19:24 +0000">
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craig
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:50:17 +0000">
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craig
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:41:20 +0000">
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craig
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</metadata>
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</glsa>
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