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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                              ESB-2009.1146.2
        Security Vulnerability in Sun VirtualBox May Lead to Denial
                             of Service (DoS)
                              10 August 2009

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           Sun VirtualBox
Publisher:         Sun Microsystems
Operating System:  Solaris
                   Windows
                   Linux variants
                   Mac OS X
Impact/Access:     Denial of Service -- Existing Account
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:         CVE-2009-2714  

Original Bulletin: 
   http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-265268-1

Revision History:  August 10 2009: CVE added
                   August  7 2009: Initial Release

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Solution Type Sun Alert

Solution  265268 :   Security Vulnerability in Sun VirtualBox May Lead to 
Denial of Service (DoS)  

Bug ID
6867777

Product
Sun VirtualBox 3.0

Date of Resolved Release
05-Aug-2009

SA Document Body

Security Vulnerability in Sun VirtualBox May Lead to Denial of Service (DoS)

1. Impact

A security vulnerability in Sun VirtualBox 3.0 may allow a local unprivileged 
user inside of a VirtualBox virtual machine to be able to reboot the host 
operating system, which is a type of Denial of Service (DoS).

2. Contributing Factors

This issue can occur in the following releases (for all supported platforms):

    * Sun VirtualBox 3.0.0, 3.0.2

Notes:

1. Sun VirtualBox does not run on the SPARC Platform.
2. Previous releases of Sun VirtualBox are not affected by this issue.

To determine the version of Sun VirtualBox on a system, do one of the 
following:

In the Menu of Sun VirtualBox, select:

Help -> About VirtualBox

Or from the command line, the following command can be run (For Windows, change 
to the installation directory first):

$ VBoxManage -version

3. Symptoms

There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate the described issue has 
occurred.

4. Workaround

There is no workaround for this issue. Please see the "Resolution" section 
below.

5. Resolution

This issue is addressed in the following release (for all supported 
platforms):

    * Sun VirtualBox 3.0.4

Sun VirtualBox packages can be downloaded from the following site:

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html

For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see Technical Instruction ID 
213557.

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Copyright 2000-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, 
CA 95054 U.S.A. All rights reserved.

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