Bochs 2.3 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Bochs 2.3. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2007-2894. Moreover, an exploit is present. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Bochs 2.3. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

The emulated floppy disk controller in Bochs 2.3 allows local users of the guest operating system to cause a denial of service (virtual machine crash) via unspecified vectors, resulting in a divide-by-zero error.

The bug was discovered 05/01/2007. The weakness was disclosed 02/01/2007 by Tavis Ormandy (Website). The advisory is available at vupen.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2007-2894 since 05/29/2007. The exploitability is told to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 27733 (Fedora 7 : bochs-2.3-7.fc7 (2007-1778)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 8 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (34513), Exploit-DB (30110), Tenable (27733), SecurityFocus (BID 24246†) and OSVDB (42119†). The entry VDB-37001 is pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 27733
Nessus Name: Fedora 7 : bochs-2.3-7.fc7 (2007-1778)
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OpenVAS ID: 861194
OpenVAS Name: Family Connections argv[1] Parameter Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
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Recommended: Upgrade
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05/29/2007 +28 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Researcher: Tavis Ormandy
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2007-2894 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-2894
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-37002
X-Force: 34513
SecurityFocus: 24246 - Bochs Buffer Overflow and Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 25470
OSVDB: 42119 - Bochs Emulated Floppy Disk Controller Unspecified Divide-By-Zero Local DoS
Vulnerability Center: 15984 - Bochs 2.3 Emulated Disk Controller Allows Local Users of the Guest Operating System to Cause DoS, Low
Vupen: ADV-2007-1936

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/15/2015 15:58
Updated: 12/14/2024 20:21
Changes: 03/15/2015 15:58 (82), 07/25/2019 12:10 (3), 12/14/2024 20:21 (19)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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