glsa-201204-01.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201204-01">
  <title>VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VirtualBox, allowing local
    attackers to gain escalated privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">virtualbox</product>
  <announced>2012-04-09</announced>
  <revised count="1">2012-04-09</revised>
  <bug>386317</bug>
  <bug>399807</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-emulation/virtualbox" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.1.8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.1.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="app-emulation/virtualbox-bin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.1.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.1.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product from Oracle.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities have been discovered in VirtualBox.
      Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges via unknown
      attack vectors. 
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All VirtualBox users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-emulation/virtualbox-4.1.8"
    </code>
    
    <p>All VirtualBox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-4.1.8"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4414">CVE-2010-4414</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2300">CVE-2011-2300</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2305">CVE-2011-2305</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0105">CVE-2012-0105</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0111">CVE-2012-0111</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="2011-12-07T22:00:54Z" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="2012-04-09T22:33:28Z" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>