KLA10963 Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle VM VirtualBox

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Oracle VM VirtualBox. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a denial of service, gain priveleges, obtain sensitive information.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. Unspecified vulnerabilities in subcomponents: Shared Folder, VirtualBox SVGA Emulation can be exploited to gain privileges, obtain sensitive information and cause a denial of service;
2. An unspecified vulnerability in subcomponent GUI can be exploited via multiple protocols to obtain sensitive information.

Technical details

Exploiting vulnerabilities (1), (2) can also affect additional products.

Vulnerabilities (1) can be exploited by a high privileged malicious user who is logged on to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox is executed to compromise it.

Vulnerability (2) can be exploited by a high privileged malicious user with network access.

Exploiting vulnerability (2) successfully requires user interaction (with not the same person as the unauthenticated attacker).

Original advisories

Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

Oracle-VirtualBox

CVE list

CVE-2017-3316 high

CVE-2017-3290 warning

CVE-2017-3332 warning

Solution

Update to 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.

• PE

Privilege escalation. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing by abuser actions, which are normally disallowed for current role.

Affected Products

• Oracle VM VirtualBox earlier than 5.0.32Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.x earlier than 5.1.14