PT-2015-2517 · Oracle · Virtualbox

Published 2015-10-21 · Updated 2016-12-24 · CVE-2015-4856

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 4.0.30 Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 4.1.38 Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 4.2.30 Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 4.3.26 Oracle VM VirtualBox versions prior to 5.0.0

Description The issue is related to errors in the code of the Core component in Oracle VM VirtualBox, allowing local users to affect availability via unknown vectors. This can lead to a denial of service.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.0.30, update to version 4.0.30 or later. For versions prior to 4.1.38, update to version 4.1.38 or later. For versions prior to 4.2.30, update to version 4.2.30 or later. For versions prior to 4.3.26, update to version 4.3.26 or later. For versions prior to 5.0.0, update to version 5.0.0 or later.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-17

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-11882

CVE-2015-4856

Affected Products

Virtualbox

References · 11

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4856 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4856 · Vendor Advisory
• http://oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-4856 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11882 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4856 · Security Note
• http://oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html#AppendixDB · Note
• http://oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4856 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1033880 · Note
• https://oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2015.html · Note