KLA11074
Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle VM VirtualBox

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Oracle VM VirtualBox. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to to cause a denial of service, read and write accesible data and possibly to obtain sensitive information.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in subcomponent Core of Oracle Virtualization component can be exploited remotely possibly to obtain sensitive information;
2. An unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent Core of Oracle Virtualization component can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service (it can be either hang or frequently repeatable crash), write to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data;
3. An unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent Core of Oracle Virtualization component can be exploited remotely to cause a partial denial of service, read a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data;
4. Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in subcomponent Core of Oracle Virtualization component can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service (it can be either hang or frequently repeatable crash), write to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and read a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data;
5. An unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent Core of Oracle Virtualization component can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service (it can be either hang or frequently repeatable crash), write to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data;
6. An unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent Core of Oracle Virtualization component can be exploited remotely to cause a partial denial of service, write to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data;

Technical details

Vulnerabilities (1)-(3) can be exploited by a low privileged user with logon to the infrastructure where OracleVM VirtualBox is executed.

Vulnerabilities (4)-(6) can be exploited by a high privileged user with logon to the infrastructure where OracleVM VirtualBox is executed.

NB: These vulnerabilities do not have any public CVSS rating so rating can be changed by the time.

NB: At this moment Oracle has just reserved CVE numbers for these vulnerabilities. Information can be changed soon.

Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.x earlier than 5.1.24

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