CVE-2009-3940 (GCVE-0-2009-3940)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-11-16 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| 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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