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TITLE:
Oracle VirtualBox Missing VT-x / AMD-V Extension Interrupt Handling
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50519

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-09-10

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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.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
halfdog

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2012/VirtualBoxSoftwareInterrupt0x8GuestCrash/
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

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