** Description changed: When running 64-bit guests in 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04, the host with high probably goes into abrupt reboot sooner or later. There's upstream bug for this: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10528 It reports that the issue was fixed in Virtualbox 4.1.18 . Please consider upgrade for the package in 12.04. Please also consider this as high priority, because abrupt reboots diminishes user experience largely. Thanks. [Impact] This bug could cause a loss of user data: in fact, a crashed session means that all unsaved documents are lost. Also, this bug could be a serious security issue: in fact, it can be used for Denial Of Service attacks: if a server has at least one unprotected virtual machine (i.e. for test purposes), a malware could try to launch a 64 bit code to be able to crash not only the virtual machine (a crash on a test virtual machine does no harm), but the whole server. This kind of attack could also be unintentional. + + [Development Fix] + Is being fixed in 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.3 upload to precise-proposed. + + [Stable Fix] + Fixed in Quantal/Raring since 4.1.18-dfsg-1. + + [Regression Potential] + This is fixed in newer Ubuntu and upstream releases and I didn't see any regressions reported. The patch is very small (adds only 4 lines of code) so shouldn't cause any harm at all.
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