Oracle VirtualBox Denial of Service Vulnerability-01 (Jul 2016) - Linux

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:oracle:vm_virtualbox";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.808259");
  script_version("2025-09-19T05:38:25+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-3597");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"2.1");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-19 05:38:25 +0000 (Fri, 19 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-09-01 01:29:00 +0000 (Fri, 01 Sep 2017)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-07-21 12:24:33 +0530 (Thu, 21 Jul 2016)");
  script_name("Oracle VirtualBox Denial of Service Vulnerability-01 (Jul 2016) - Linux");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Oracle VirtualBox is prone to a denial of service vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw exists due to some unspecified
  error in the Oracle VM VirtualBox Core component.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow local
  attackers to have an impact on availability.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Oracle VirtualBox versions prior to 5.0.26
  on Linux.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 5.0.26 or later.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html");

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("secpod_sun_virtualbox_detect_lin.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("Sun/VirtualBox/Lin/Ver");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
  exit(0);

vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];

if(vers =~ "^5\.0\.") {
  if(version_in_range(version:vers, test_version:"5.0.0", test_version2:"5.0.25")) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"5.0.26", install_path:path);
    security_message(port:0, data:report);
    exit(0);
  }
}

exit(99);