Unspecified vulnerability in Guest Additions in Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6.x and 2.0.x before 2.0.12, 2.1.x, and 2.2.x, and Sun VirtualBox before 3.0.10, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) on the guest OS via unknown vectors.

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in virtualbox :

Unspecified vulnerability in Guest Additions in Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6.x and 2.0.x before 2.0.12, 2.1.x, and 2.2.x, and Sun VirtualBox before 3.0.10, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) on the guest OS via unknown vectors (CVE-2009-3940).

Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers.

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

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.

This update of virtualbox-ose fixes a memory consumption bug in the kernel code that can be used to allocate almost all physical memory.
CVE-2009-3940: CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 (LOW) (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

The remote Windows host is running a version of Sun VirtualBox Guest Additions earlier than 2.0.12 or 3.0.10. Such versions are potentially affected by a local denial of service vulnerability.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
45030	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : virtualbox (MDVSA-2010:059)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	low
44893	GLSA-201001-04 : VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
44373	openSUSE Security Update : virtualbox-ose (virtualbox-ose-1874)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
44369	openSUSE Security Update : virtualbox-ose (virtualbox-ose-1874)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
44363	openSUSE Security Update : virtualbox-ose (virtualbox-ose-1874)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
42831	Sun xVM VirtualBox Guest Additions < 2.0.12 / 3.0.10 Local DoS	Nessus	Windows	medium

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