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


From: Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:15:37 -0500 (EST)

Use CVE-2009-3893 for this.

Thanks.

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    JB


----- "Thomas Biege" <thomas () suse de> wrote:

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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