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GLSA-201001-04 : VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 44893

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201001-04 (VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities)

 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 :

 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.

Solution

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'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201001-04

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 44893

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201001-04.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Published: 2/25/2010

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:virtualbox-bin, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:virtualbox-guest-additions, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:virtualbox-ose, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:virtualbox-ose-additions, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3692, CVE-2009-3940

GLSA: 201001-04