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Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-0602): virtualbox vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-0602): virtualbox vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/21/2016
Created
11/21/2024
Added
11/19/2024
Modified
11/19/2024

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle Virtualization VirtualBox before 5.0.14 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Windows Installer. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that this is an untrusted search path issue that allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse dll in the "application directory."

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-virtualbox

References

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