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virtualbox: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):virtualbox CVE #(s):CVE-2009-3692 CVE-2009-3940
Created:January 14, 2010 Updated:March 11, 2010
Description: From the Gentoo alert:

* A shell metacharacter injection in popen() (CVE-2009-3692) and a possible buffer overflow in strncpy() in the VBoxNetAdpCtl configuration tool. * An unspecified vulnerability in VirtualBox Guest Additions (CVE-2009-3940).

Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:059 2010-03-10
Gentoo 201001-04 2010-01-13
SuSE SUSE-SR:2010:002 2010-02-01
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