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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:23:20 +0100
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2009-0876 (VirtualBox) references
Hi,
* Robert Buchholz <rbu@...too.org> [2009-03-16 01:57]:
> Sun released an advisory for VirtualBox referenced for CVE-2009-0876
> recently:
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-254568-1
>
> However, details are missing and patch information is (unintentionally)
> obfuscated due to inconsistent revision numbers in the public svn vs.
> internal build revisions.
>
> The original bug report for Gentoo and upstream were here:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260331
[...]
Any reason the CVE description says "Unspecified
vulnerability...via unknown vectors"?
Looking at the Gentoo bug report[0] it seems obvious to me
that this is caused by insecurely loading shared libraries
so you can inject your own shared lib code.
[0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260331#c0
Cheers
Nico
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