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.

Original advisories

Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

Oracle-VirtualBox

CVE list

CVE-2017-10204 warning

CVE-2017-10129 warning

CVE-2017-10210 warning

CVE-2017-10233 warning

CVE-2017-10236 warning

CVE-2017-10237 warning

CVE-2017-10238 warning

CVE-2017-10239 warning

CVE-2017-10240 warning

CVE-2017-10241 warning

CVE-2017-10242 warning

CVE-2017-10235 warning

CVE-2017-10209 warning

CVE-2017-10187 warning

Solution

Update to the latest versions

Download Oracle VM VirtualBox

Impacts

• OSI

Obtain sensitive information. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to capturing by abuser information, critical for user or system.

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

• SB

Security bypass. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing actions restricted by current security settings.

• WLF

Write Local Files. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to writing into some inaccessible files. Files that can be read depends on concrete program errors.

• RLF

Read Local Files. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to reading some inaccessible files. Files that can be read depends on conсrete program errors.

Affected Products

• Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.x earlier than 5.1.24