CVE-2012-3221

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Published 2012-10-17 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.1

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM Virtual Box component in Oracle Virtualization 3.2, 4.0, and 4.1 allows local users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to VirtualBox Core. NOTE: The previous information was obtained from the October 2012 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from another vendor that this issue is related to "incorrect interrupt handling."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-21224 dos linux_x86-64

halfdog · 2012-09-10

Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.1 - Local Denial of Service

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
sid	Fixed	`4.1.18-dfsg-1.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
oracle	virtualization	`3.2`
oracle	virtualization	`4.0`
oracle	virtualization	`4.1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.