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Debian DSA-2904-1 : virtualbox - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73534

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Francisco Falcon discovered that missing input sanitizing in the 3D acceleration code in VirtualBox could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the host system.

Solution

Upgrade the virtualbox packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.10-dfsg-1+squeeze3.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u3.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/virtualbox

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2904

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73534

File Name: debian_DSA-2904.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/16/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:virtualbox, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/15/2014

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (VirtualBox 3D Acceleration Virtual Machine Escape)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0981, CVE-2014-0983

BID: 66131, 66133

DSA: 2904