CVE-2019-2679

Published: 23 April 2019

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.2.28 and prior to 6.0.6. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.3 (Confidentiality and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H).

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 7.3

Status

Package Release Status
virtualbox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (6.0.6-dfsg-1)
Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) Not vulnerable
(6.0.6-dfsg-1)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Not vulnerable
(6.0.6-dfsg-1)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Needs triage

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Needs triage

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) Does not exist
(trusty was needs-triage)
Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Precise Pangolin) Does not exist

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