Is CVE-2014-0981 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2014-0981 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2014-0981?

CVE-2014-0981 has a CVSS v2 base score of 4.4 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2014-0981?

CVE-2014-0981 has an EPSS score of 1.40% (69th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2014-0981?

Upgrade virtualbox on debian unstable to 4.3.10-dfsg-1 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2014-0981

MEDIUM

4.4

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

VBox/GuestHost/OpenGL/util/net.c in Oracle VirtualBox before 3.2.22, 4.0.x before 4.0.24, 4.1.x before 4.1.32, 4.2.x before 4.2.24, and 4.3.x before 4.3.8, when using 3D Acceleration allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the Chromium server via crafted Chromium network pointer in a (1) CR_MESSAGE_READBACK or (2) CR_MESSAGE_WRITEBACK message to the VBoxSharedCrOpenGL service, which triggers an arbitrary pointer dereference and memory corruption. NOTE: this issue was MERGED with CVE-2014-0982 because it is the same type of vulnerability affecting the same set of versions. All CVE users should reference CVE-2014-0981 instead of CVE-2014-0982.

CWE-399Resource Management Errors

How to fix

Remediation Available

virtualboxDebian

Fixed in:4.3.10-dfsg-1CVE-2014-0981

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

1.40%probability of exploitation in 30 days

69thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 69% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit2

Vendor Advisory1

secunia.com

Other references6

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-399 (Resource Management Errors) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2009-3103	High	10.0	90%	-	-
CVE-2009-0075	High	9.3	85%	-	-
CVE-2005-1790	Low	2.6	83%	-	-
CVE-2010-0806	High	8.8	82%	KEV	-
CVE-2009-2526	High	7.8	82%	-	-
CVE-2015-1868	High	7.8	82%	-	Fix

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