2.1 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.3 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
22.9%
Sun VirtualBox or xVM VirtualBox is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.901055");
script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:39+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:39 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-11-26 06:39:46 +0100 (Thu, 26 Nov 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"2.1");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-3940");
script_name("Sun VirtualBox or xVM VirtualBox Denial Of Service Vulnerability - Linux");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/37363/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37024");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://en.securitylab.ru/nvd/387766.php");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-271149-1");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("secpod_sun_virtualbox_detect_lin.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Sun/VirtualBox/Lin/Ver");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will let attacker to exhaust the kernel memory of the
guest operating system, leading to a Denial of Service against the guest
operating system running in a virtual machine.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Sun VirtualBox version 3.x before 3.0.10
Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6.x and 2.0.x before 2.0.12, 2.1.x, and 2.2.x");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to the unspecified vulnerability in Guest Additions,
via unknown vectors.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Sun VirtualBox version 3.0.10 or Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0.12.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Sun VirtualBox or xVM VirtualBox is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
vmVer = get_kb_item("Sun/VirtualBox/Lin/Ver");
if(!vmVer)
exit(0);
vmVer = eregmatch(pattern:"([0-9]\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)", string:vmVer);
if(!vmVer[1])
exit(0);
if(version_in_range(version:vmVer[1], test_version:"1.6.0", test_version2:"1.6.6")||
version_in_range(version:vmVer[1], test_version:"2.0.0", test_version2:"2.0.11")||
version_in_range(version:vmVer[1], test_version:"2.1.0", test_version2:"2.1.4")||
version_in_range(version:vmVer[1], test_version:"2.2.0", test_version2:"2.2.4")||
version_in_range(version:vmVer[1], test_version:"3.0.0", test_version2:"3.0.9")){
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
}