Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2594-1 virtualbox-ose -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 30 Dec 2012
- Affected Packages:
- virtualbox-ose
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-3221.
- More information:
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halfdog
discovered that incorrect interrupt handling in VirtualBox, a x86 virtualization solution, can lead to denial of service.For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.10-dfsg-1+squeeze1.
For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.18-dfsg-1.1 of the virtualbox source package.
We recommend that you upgrade your virtualbox-ose packages.