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Category: Mandriva Local Security Checks Risk factor: Low Added: 11 Mar 2010
Synopsis:

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory MDVSA-2010:059 (virtualbox).

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.

See also:

http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:059

Solution:

Apply the newest security patches from Mandriva.

Risk factor:

Low / CVSS Base Score : 2.1
(CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)