Resource Management Errors Affecting vm_virtualbox package, versions [,3.2.22)[4.0.0,4.0.24)[4.1.0,4.1.32)[4.2.0,4.2.24)[4.3.0,4.3.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.86% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VMVIRTUALBOX-2383426
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Mar 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-0981  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vm_virtualbox to version 3.2.22, 4.0.24, 4.1.32, 4.2.24, 4.3.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. VBox/GuestHost/OpenGL/util/net.c in Oracle VirtualBox before 3.2.22, 4.0.x before 4.0.24, 4.1.x before 4.1.32, 4.2.x before 4.2.24, and 4.3.x before 4.3.8, when using 3D Acceleration allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the Chromium server via crafted Chromium network pointer in a (1) CR_MESSAGE_READBACK or (2) CR_MESSAGE_WRITEBACK message to the VBoxSharedCrOpenGL service, which triggers an arbitrary pointer dereference and memory corruption. NOTE: this issue was MERGED with CVE-2014-0982 because it is the same type of vulnerability affecting the same set of versions. All CVE users should reference CVE-2014-0981 instead of CVE-2014-0982.

CVSS Scores

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