Executive Summary

Summary
Title VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201001-04 First vendor Publication 2010-01-13
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2010-01-13
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in VirtualBox were found, the worst of which allowing for privilege escalation.

Background

The VirtualBox family provides powerful x86 virtualization products.

Description

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.

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:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201001-04.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201001-04.xml

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 9
Application 14

ExploitDB Exploits

id Description
2009-10-17 Sun VirtualBox <= 3.0.6 privilege escalation

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2010-03-12 Name : Mandriva Update for virtualbox MDVSA-2010:059 (virtualbox)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2010_059.nasl
2010-02-15 Name : Mandriva Update for msec MDVA-2010:059 (msec)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVA_2010_059.nasl
2010-01-20 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201001-04 (virtualbox-bin virtualbox-ose virtua...
File : nvt/glsa_201001_04.nasl
2009-11-26 Name : Sun VirtualBox or xVM VirtualBox Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Linux)
File : nvt/secpod_sun_virtualbox_dos_vuln_lin.nasl
2009-11-26 Name : Sun VirtualBox or xVM VirtualBox Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Win)
File : nvt/secpod_sun_virtualbox_dos_vuln_win.nasl
2009-11-20 Name : Sun VirtualBox 'VBoxNetAdpCtl' Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
File : nvt/secpod_sun_virtualbox_priv_esc_vuln_lin.nasl
2009-10-13 Name : FreeBSD Ports: virtualbox
File : nvt/freebsd_virtualbox.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
60098 Sun VirtualBox Guest Additions Kernel Memory Exhaustion Local DoS
58652 Sun VirtualBox VBoxNetAdpCtl Configuration Tool Unspecified Local Privilege E...

VirtualBox contains a flaw related to the VBoxNetAdpCtl configuration tool that may allow an attacker to escalate privileges. No further details have been provided.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2010-03-11 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2010-059.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-02-25 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201001-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-02-02 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_virtualbox-ose-100126.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-02-02 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_virtualbox-ose-100126.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-02-02 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_2_virtualbox-ose-100121.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-11-17 Name : The remote Windows host is running a set of virtualization utilities that is ...
File : virtualbox_guest_additions_local_dos.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-10-08 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_ebeed063b32811deb6a50030843d3802.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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