Security News > 2018 > November > Unpatched VirtualBox Zero-Day Vulnerability and Exploit Released Online
2018-11-08 09:33
An independent exploit developer and vulnerability researcher has publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in VirtualBox—a popular open source virtualization software developed by Oracle—that could allow a malicious program to escape virtual machine (guest OS) and execute code on the operating system of the host machine. The vulnerability occurs due to memory corruption issues and affects
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