Security update for virtualbox (important)

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description:

This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues:

Version update to 6.1.18 (released January 19 2021)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Nested VM: Fixed hangs when executing SMP nested-guests under certain
  conditions on Intel hosts (bug #19315, #19561)

• OCI integration: Cloud Instance parameters parsing is improved on import
  (bug #19156)

• Network: UDP checksum offloading in e1000 no longer produces zero
  checksums (bug #19930)

• Network: Fixed Host-Only Ethernet Adapter DHCP, guest os can not get IP
  on host resume (bug #19620)

• NAT: Fixed mss parameter handing (bug #15256)

• macOS host: Multiple optimizations for BigSur

• Audio: Fixed issues with audio playback after host goes to sleep (bug
  #18594)

• Documentation: Some content touch-up and table formatting fixes

• Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.10 (bug #20055)

• Solaris host: Fix regression breaking VGA text mode since version 6.1.0

• Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting CentOS 8.2-2004 and
  later (bug #20091)

• Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting Linux kernels 3.2.0
  through 3.2.50 (bug #20006)

• Guest Additions: Fixed a VM segfault on copy with shared clipboard with
  X11 (bug #19226)

• Shared Folder: Fixed error with remounting on Linux guests

• Fixes CVE-2021-2074, boo#1181197 and CVE-2021-2129, boo#1181198.

• Disable build of guest modules. These are included in recent kernels

• Fix additional mouse control dialog issues.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or “zypper patch”.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

• openSUSE Leap 15.2:

  zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-165=1