CVE-2016-5613 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.3 Published Updated

Local users can cause a denial of service in Oracle VM VirtualBox via unspecified vectors related to the Core component.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2016-5613?

CVE-2016-5613 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Vm Virtualbox, published on 25 Oct 2016. 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 before 5.0.28 and 5.1.x before 5.1.8 in Oracle Virtualization allows local users to affect availability via vectors related to Core, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5608.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5613?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Vm Virtualbox.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5613?

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-2016-5613 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5613 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Oracle Vm Virtualbox vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-77qq-vrvf-vfqw.

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