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Debian DSA-3274-1 CVE-2015-3456: Critical Virtualbox Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 28, 2015
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Ubuntu patches VirtualBox to address stack overflow vulnerability allowing privilege escalations. Updating is advised for enhanced security.
Jason Geffner discovered a buffer overflow in the emulated floppy disk drive, resulting in the potential privilege escalation
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Summary

Jason Geffner discovered a buffer overflow in the emulated floppy
disk drive, resulting in the potential privilege escalation.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u5.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.3.18-dfsg-3+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.3.28-dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your virtualbox packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: virtualbox
CVE ID: CVE-2015-3456

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