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HistoryJul 27, 2022 - 12:00 a.m.

Security update for virtualbox (important)

2022-07-2700:00:00
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8.2 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

An update that solves 7 vulnerabilities and has one errata
is now available.

Description:

This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues:

  • Save and restore FPU status during interrupt. (boo#1199803)

  • Update support of building with Python

  • Replace SDL-devel BuildRequires with pkgconfig(sdl): allow to use
    sdl12_compat as an alternative.

Version bump to 6.1.36 released by Oracle July 19 2022

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

  • VMM: Fixed possible Linux guest kernel crash when configuring
    Speculative Store Bypass for a single vCPU VM

  • GUI: In the storage page of the virtual machine settings dialog, fixed a
    bug which disrupted mouse interaction with the native file selector on
    KDE

  • NAT: Prevent issue when host resolver incorrectly returned NXDOMAIN for
    unsupported queries (bug #20977)

  • Audio: General improvements in saved state area

  • Recording: Various fixes for settings handling

  • VGA: Performance improvements for screen updates when VBE banking is used

  • USB: Fixed rare crashes when detaching a USB device

  • ATA: Fixed NT4 guests taking a minute to eject CDs

  • vboximg-mount: Fixed broken write support (bug #20896)

  • SDK: Fixed Python bindings incorrectly trying to convert arbitrary byte
    data into unicode objects with Python 3, causing exceptions (bug #19740)

  • API: Fixed an issue when virtual USB mass storage devices or virtual USB
    DVD drives are added while the VM is not running are by default not
    marked as hot-pluggable

  • API: Initial support for Python 3.10

  • API: Solaris OS types cleanup

  • Linux and Solaris hosts: Allow to mount shared folder if it is
    represented as a symlink on a host side (bug #17491)

  • Linux Host and Guest drivers: Introduced initial support for kernels
    5.18, 5.19 and RHEL 9.1 (bugs #20914, #20941)

  • Linux Host and Guest drivers: Better support for kernels built with
    clang compiler (bugs #20425 and #20998)

  • Solaris Guest Additions: General improvements in installer area

  • Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize in VMSVGA graphics
    configuration

  • Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed multi-screen handling in
    VBoxVGA and VBoxSVGA graphics configuration

  • Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Added support for setting primary
    screen via VBoxManage

  • Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed X11 resources leak when
    resizing guest screens

  • Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed file descriptor leak when
    starting a process using guest control (bug #20902)

  • Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed guest control executing
    processes as root

  • Linux Guest Additions: Improved guests booting time by preventing kernel
    modules from being rebuilt when it is not necessary (bug #20502)

  • Windows Guest Additions: Fixed VBoxTray crash on startup in NT4 guests
    on rare circumstances

  • Fixes CVE-2022-21571,CVE-2022-21554 - boo#1201720

Version bump to 6.1.34 (released March 22 2022) by Oracle

  • This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
    added:
  • VMM: Fix instruction emulation for “cmpxchg16b”
  • GUI: Improved GUI behavior on macOS Big Sur and later when kernel
    extensions are not loaded
  • EHCI: Addressed an issue with handling short packets (bug #20726)
  • Storage: Fixed a potential hang during disk I/O when the host I/O cache
    is disabled (bug #20875)
  • NVMe: Fixed loading saved state when nothing is attached to it (bug
    #20791)
  • DevPcBios: Addressed an issue which resulted in rejecting the detected
    LCHS geometry when the head count was above 16
  • virtio-scsi: Improvements
  • E1000: Improve descriptor handling
  • VBoxManage: Fixed handling of command line arguments with incomplete
    quotes (bug #20740)
  • VBoxManage: Improved ‘natnetwork list’ output
  • VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (–ipv6-prefix) to set IPv6
    prefix
  • VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (–ipv6-default) to advertise
    default IPv6 route (bug #20714)
  • VBoxManage: Fix documentation of “usbdevsource add” (bug #20849)
  • Networking: General improvements in IPv4 and IPv6 area (bug #20714)
  • OVF Import: Allow users to specify a different storage controller and/or
    controller port for hard disks when importing a VM
  • Unattended install: Improvements
  • Shared Clipboard: Improved HTML clipboard handling for Windows host
  • Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 5.17
  • Solaris package: Fixes for API access from Python
  • Solaris IPS package: Suppress dependency on libpython2.7.so.*
  • Linux host and guest: Fixes for Linux kernel 5.14
  • Linux Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize for older guests which
    are running libXrandr older than version 1.4
  • Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.6 kernels
    (bug #20877)
  • Windows guest: Make driver install smarter
  • Solaris guest: Addressed an issue which prevented VBox GAs 6.1.30 or
    6.1.32 from being removed in Solaris 10 guests (bug #20780)
  • EFI: Fixed booting from FreeBSD ISO images (bug #19910)
  • Fixes CVE-2022-21465 (boo#1198676), CVE-2022-21471 (boo#1198677),
    CVE-2022-21491 (boo#1198680), CVE-2022-21487 (boo#1198678), and
    CVE-2022-21488 (boo#1198679).
  • package virtualbox-websrv needs sysvinit-tools (boo#1198703)

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 15.4:

    zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2022-10067=1

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
openSUSE Leap15.4noarch< - openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch):- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch):.noarch.rpm
openSUSE Leap15.4x86_64< - openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64):- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64):.x86_64.rpm

8.2 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P