prushik on 8 Nov 2018 11:56:31 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] new virtualbox exploit



On November 8, 2018 1:55:50 PM EST, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote:
>the guy who found it flipped out and released this before submitting to
>Oracle.

Exactly the way all vulnerabilities should be released. Wish more peeps would do this. #informationfreedom

This is just a vm escape though. the attacker needs root on the guest, and only gets to the host with non-root user permissions. By itself, this probably isn't a very serious vulnerability.

- Phil
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