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#CVE-2017-3558

Illustration of VirtualBox Slirp heap corruption enabling VM to host userspace escape
Ransomware & Malware

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.

4 min read 6 hours ago
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