Out-of-Bounds Affecting virtualbox package, versions <4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.48% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-VIRTUALBOX-355469
  • published5 Nov 2015
  • disclosed5 Nov 2015

Introduced: 5 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-7183  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 virtualbox to version 4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream virtualbox package and not the virtualbox package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Integer overflow in the PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE implementation in Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.1 and 3.20.x before 3.20.1, as used in Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors.

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