CVE-2019-2873 Denial of service in VM VirtualBox

What is CVE-2019-2873?

CVE-2019-2873 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 23 Jul 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.2.32 and prior to 6.0.10. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 3.3 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-2873?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Oracle Vm Virtualbox.

How do I fix CVE-2019-2873?

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-2019-2873 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-2873 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap

• CVE-2015-4902 Oracle Java SE Integrity Check Exploited Medium 5.3
• CVE-2017-14804 package builds could use directory traversal to write outside of target area Critical 9.9
• CVE-2019-20787 Teeworlds before 0.7.4 has an integer overflow when computing a tilemap size. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-8341 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6438 Other in n/a Critical 9.8

All Opensuse Leap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-56xw-x4gp-3j77, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-2873.