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Bug 434872 (CVE-2012-3221) - <app-emulation/virtualbox{,-bin}-4.1.22 : Missing VT-x / AMD-V Extension Interrupt Handling Vulnerability (CVE-2012-3221)
Summary: <app-emulation/virtualbox{,-bin}-4.1.22 : Missing VT-x / AMD-V Extension Inte...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2012-3221
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://secunia.com/advisories/50519/
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa]
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: 419361
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Reported: 2012-09-13 09:18 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2014-01-20 09:18 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2012-09-13 09:18:42 UTC
From secunia at $URL:

Description
halfdog has reported a vulnerability in Oracle VirtualBox, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL-pointer dereference error when calling the task-gate via IDT (software interrupt) with insufficient privileges in a processor missing VT-x / AMD-V extensions and can be exploited to cause a crash.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 4.1.22.


Solution
Update to version 4.1.22.
Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-09-13 10:25:03 UTC
Arches please test and mark stable the following packages:

=app-emulation/virtualbox-4.1.22
=app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.1.22
=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-4.1.22
=app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle-4.1.22
=app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-4.1.22
=app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.1.22
=x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-4.1.22

Target keywords are:
amd64 x86



Although only app-emulation/virtualbox{,-bin} are affected we need all these packages stable as they are:
  - a dependency of app-emulation/virtualbox{,-bin}
  - need to stay in sync with the rest of the packages
Comment 2 Richard Freeman gentoo-dev 2012-09-14 13:44:22 UTC
I'm not sure if all need to be kept in sync.  For amd64 I've tested and can stabilize:

=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-4.1.22
=app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-4.1.22
=app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.1.22
Comment 3 Maurizio Camisaschi (amd64 AT) 2012-09-16 13:34:01 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> =app-emulation/virtualbox-4.1.22
> =app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.1.22
> =app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-4.1.22
> =app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle-4.1.22
> =app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-4.1.22
> =app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.1.22
> =x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-4.1.22

amd64 ok
Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2012-09-16 23:37:03 UTC
amd64 stable, thanks Maurizio and Richard
Comment 5 Andreas Schürch gentoo-dev 2012-09-17 20:18:16 UTC
x86 done. thanks!
last arch!
Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2012-09-17 20:19:26 UTC
security, please vote
Comment 7 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2012-09-19 10:44:58 UTC
GLSA vote: yes.
Comment 8 Tim Sammut (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-09-20 23:39:22 UTC
GLSA Vote: yes, too. Request filed.
Comment 9 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2012-10-20 00:07:31 UTC
CVE-2012-3221 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3221):
  Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM Virtual Box component in Oracle
  Virtualization 3.2, 4.0, and 4.1 allows local users to affect availability
  via unknown vectors related to VirtualBox Core.
Comment 10 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2014-01-20 09:18:12 UTC
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201401-13 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-13.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sergey Popov (pinkbyte).