VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape

Re:VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape by niklasb on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @09:19PM (#18396685)

The bug is in the VirtualBox code that emulates an Intel E1000 device. There is no driver code involved.

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Re:VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape by craftyguy on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @09:25PM (#18396704)

Thanks.

> There is no driver code involved.

Yea I see that step #1 in the 'exploit algo' is to remove the e1000, I missed that earlier:

> An attacker unloads e1000.ko loaded by default in Linux guests and loads the exploit's LKM.

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