Detections
Analytics
Sun xVM VirtualBox < 3.0.4 Multiple Local Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Plugin ID 40549
Synopsis
The remote Windows host has an application that is affected by local denial of service vulnerabilities.Description
The remote host contains a version of Sun xVM VirtualBox, an open source virtualization platform, before 3.0.4. Such versions have multiple local denial of service vulnerabilities. A guest virtual machine (VM) can reboot the host machine by executing the 'sysenter' instruction. The vendor states there are several other denial of service vulnerabilities in addition to this.An attacker with access to the guest VM could leverage these to cause a denial of service.
Solution
Upgrade to Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0.4 or later.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 40549
File Name: virtualbox_3_0_4.nasl
Version: 1.17
Type: local
Agent: windows
Family: Windows
Published: 8/11/2009
Updated: 11/15/2018
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.8
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.9
Temporal Score: 3.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:sun:xvm_virtualbox
Required KB Items: VirtualBox/Version
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2009
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-2714, CVE-2009-2715