Bug Id
6867777

Product
VirtualBox 3

Date of Resolved Release
05-Aug-2009

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:


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:


For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see 1009886.1.

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