Race Condition Affecting vm_virtualbox package, versions [4.3.0,4.3.36)[5.0.0,5.0.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.27% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VMVIRTUALBOX-2383448
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed6 Dec 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Dec 2015

CVE-2015-3196  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vm_virtualbox to version 4.3.36, 5.0.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition ssl/s3_clnt.c in OpenSSL 1.0.0 before 1.0.0t, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1p, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2d, when used for a multi-threaded client, writes the PSK identity hint to an incorrect data structure, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (race condition and double free) via a crafted ServerKeyExchange message.

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