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VirtualBox Slirp Heap Flaw Enables VM Escape [2017 CVE]

Dusted off from 2017: VirtualBox's custom Slirp heap lets attackers corrupt chunk headers, hijack zone pointers, and trigger arbitrary code on the host. A stark reminder that VM escapes aren't relics of the past.

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