CVE-2020-2959

Upstream information

CVE-2020-2959 at MITRE

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.2.40, prior to 6.0.20 and prior to 6.1.6. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via MLD 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. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.6 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H).

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Upstream Security Advisories:

• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-498/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-499/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-500/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-506/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-507/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-497/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-510/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-501/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-508/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-551/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-581/
• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-582/

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	8.6
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1169628 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2020:0925-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:40 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Leap 15.1	python3-virtualbox >= 6.0.22-lp151.2.15.1 virtualbox >= 6.0.22-lp151.2.15.1 virtualbox-devel >= 6.0.22-lp151.2.15.1 virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons >= 6.0.22-lp151.2.15.1 virtualbox-guest-source >= 6.0.22-lp151.2.15.1 virtualbox-guest-tools >= 6.0.22-lp151.2.15.1 virtualbox-guest-x11 >= 6.0.22-lp151.2.15.1 virtualbox-host-source >= 6.0.22-lp151.2.15.1 virtualbox-kmp-default >= 6.0.22_k4.12.14_lp151.28.52-lp151.2.15.1 virtualbox-qt >= 6.0.22-lp151.2.15.1 virtualbox-vnc >= 6.0.22-lp151.2.15.1 virtualbox-websrv >= 6.0.22-lp151.2.15.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-925

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Apr 16 10:46:46 2020
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:27:16 2023