PT-2009-5099 · Sun+1 · Virtualbox

Tadas Vilkeliskis

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Published

2009-08-07

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Updated

2017-09-19

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CVE-2009-2715

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Sun VirtualBox versions 2.2 through 3.0.2 r49928
Description The issue allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service, which can result in the Linux host OS rebooting. This is achieved via a sysenter instruction.
Recommendations For versions 2.2 through 3.0.2 r49928, consider disabling the sysenter instruction handling as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-2715

Affected Products

Virtualbox