Executive Summary

Summary
Title Sun Alert 271149 Security Vulnerability in VirtualBox Guest Additions May Lead to Denial of Service against the Virtual Machine
Informations
Name SUN-271149 First vendor Publication 2009-11-13
Vendor Sun Last vendor Modification 2009-12-04
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Product: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6, Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0, Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1, Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.2, Sun VirtualBox 3.0

A security vulnerability in the optional Sun VirtualBox Guest Additions may allow local unprivileged
users to exhaust the kernel memory of the guest operating system, leading to a Denial of Service
against the guest operating system running in a virtual machine.

Since the Guest Additions are installed in the guest operating system only, this vulnerability is limited
to local users of the guest operating system running in a virtual machine where the Guest Additions
have been installed. The host operating system is not affected.

Sun would like to acknowledge with thanks, Thomas Biege of SUSE Linux for bringing this issue to our attention.

This issue is also referenced in the following document:

State: Resolved
First released: 13-Nov-2009
Sun Alert Link:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-271149-1

Original Source

Url : http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/sun_alert_271149_security_vulnerability

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 9
Application 14

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

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
60098 Sun VirtualBox Guest Additions Kernel Memory Exhaustion Local DoS

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