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openSUSE Security Update : virtualbox-ose (virtualbox-ose-1874)

low Nessus Plugin ID 44363

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

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)

Solution

Update the affected virtualbox-ose packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556031

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 44363

File Name: suse_11_0_virtualbox-ose-100126.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/2/2010

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-ose-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-ose-guest-tools, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-ose-kmp-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-ose-kmp-debug, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-ose

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 1/26/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3940