Re: Information on CVE-2011-2300/CVE-2011-2305 for VirtualBox ?

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm () inutil org>]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:26:29AM -0400, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm () debian org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > does anyone have further information on
> > http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2300 and
> > http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2305
> > and whether if affects the open source version of Virtual Box?
>
> These issues were found by Tarjei Mandt, and are described in this blog post:
> http://mista.nu/blog/author/mista/
>
> CVE-2011-2300 allows gaining elevated privileges within a Windows
> guest due to a vulnerability in the Windows Guest Additions.
> CVE-2011-2305 allows executing arbitrary code on the host due to a
> vulnerability in the VirtualBox graphics stack.
>
> Tarjei found these issues via code auditing, so it follows that they
> affect the open source version of VirtualBox.

Thanks, adding MITRE to CC:, so that they can update the descriptions
of the entries.

Cheers,
        Moritz