Security Advisory SA51893 - Oracle VirtualBox Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA51893

Oracle VirtualBox Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA51893

Release Date

2013-01-16

Popularity

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Approve distribution

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Software:

Oracle VirtualBox 4.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2013-0420 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Oracle VirtualBox, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the core component and can be exploited to cause a hang and manipulate certain VirtualBox accessible data.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2.

Solution
Apply patch (please see the vendor's advisory for details).
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Provided and/or discovered by
It is currently unclear who reported this vulnerability as the Oracle Critical Patch Update for January 2013 only provides a bundled list of credits. This section will be updated when/if the original reporter provides more information.

Original Advisory
Oracle:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2013-1515902.html#AppendixOVIR

Other references
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