While virtualization platforms are intended to provide full isolation between guest and host operating systems, VM escape vulnerabilities have seen increased scrutiny.Oracle has released patches for ten vulnerabilities in VirtualBox which allow attackers to break out of guest operating systems and attack the host operating system that VirtualBox runs on. Exploits using this method, known as a “virtual machine escape,” have been the subject of intense interest among security researchers following the disclosure of the Venom vulnerability in 2015.
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