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CVE request: virtualbox-ose guest can trigger denial of service at host, mem consumption

From: Thomas Biege <thomas () suse de>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:49:17 +0100


Hi,
just something I found in October:
http://thetoms-random-thoughts.blogspot.com/2009/11/virtualbox-ose-guest-can-trigger-denial.html

The kernel module can be used to allocate an arbitrary amount of memory.


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CVE request: virtualbox-ose guest can trigger denial of service at host, mem consumption Thomas Biege (Nov 16)
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