CVE-2009-3940 (GCVE-0-2009-3940)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-11-16 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:45
VLAI?
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in Guest Additions in Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6.x and 2.0.x before 2.0.12, 2.1.x, and 2.2.x, and Sun VirtualBox before 3.0.10, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) on the guest OS via unknown vectors.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/38420 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public ?
2009-11-13 00:00
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