CVE-2014-6540 Denial of service in n/a
Local users can cause a denial of service in Oracle VM VirtualBox via the Windows guest graphics driver.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2014-6540?
CVE-2014-6540 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox, published on 15 Oct 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle Virtualization VirtualBox before 4.1.34, before 4.2.26, and before 4.3.14 allows local users to affect availability via vectors related to Graphics driver (WDDM) for Windows guests.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-6540?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oracle Vm Virtualbox.
How do I fix CVE-2014-6540?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2014-6540 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-6540 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6540, GHSA-8w9x-37pw-9xcr, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6540.