VirtualBox's Dusty 2017 Heap Hack: Guests Storming the Host via Slirp Shenanigans
Folks figured VM NAT was bulletproof userspace sleight-of-hand. Wrong. This revived 2017 exploit blueprint shows guests corrupting heaps to hijack the host process.
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Originally reported by Google Project Zero
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