halfdog discovered that incorrect interrupt handling in VirtualBox, a x86 virtualization solution, can lead to denial of service.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.10-dfsg-1+squeeze1. For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.18-dfsg-1.1 of the virtualbox source package. We recommend that you upgrade your virtualbox-ose packages.

VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a Linux system.

virtualbox-ose on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2594.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25