[ MDVSA-2010:059 ] virtualbox

[dude67]

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Package : virtualbox
Date : March 10, 2010
Affected: 2008.0, 2009.0, 2009.1, 2010.0
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Problem Description:

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.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-3940
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