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virtualbox -- privilege escalation

Affected packages
		virtualbox	<	3.0.51.r22902_2

Details

VuXML ID	ebeed063-b328-11de-b6a5-0030843d3802
Discovery	2009-10-07
Entry	2009-10-07
Modified	2010-05-02

Sun reports:

A security vulnerability in the VBoxNetAdpCtl configuration tool for certain Sun VirtualBox 3.0 packages may allow local unprivileged users who are authorized to run VirtualBox to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2009-3692
URL	http://secunia.com/advisories/36929
URL	http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-268188-1