# CVE-2019-2877: Denial of service in VM VirtualBox

> A local attacker can cause a complete denial of service in Oracle VM VirtualBox by triggering a crash or hang.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **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:** Yes
- **Published:** 23 Jul 2019
- **Updated:** 1 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rrcx-56r7-qqff, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-2877

## What is CVE-2019-2877?

CVE-2019-2877 is a medium-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 hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-2877?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Opensuse Leap, Oracle Vm Virtualbox.

## How do I fix CVE-2019-2877?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2019-2877 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-2877 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap

- [CVE-2015-4902](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-4902/): Oracle Java SE Integrity Check (medium 5.3, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2017-14804](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-14804/): package builds could use directory traversal to write outside of target area (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2019-20787](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-20787/): Teeworlds before 0.7.4 has an integer overflow when computing a tilemap size. (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-8341](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-8341/): Code injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-6438](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-6438/): Other in n/a (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-2877 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2019-2877 is a medium-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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-2877 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Opensuse Leap. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-2877/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-2877/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2877
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-2877
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-2877

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