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Debian: DSA-3454-1 Urgent: Security Issues in VirtualBox Software

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2016
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Debian's recent advisory on VirtualBox reveals critical security vulnerabilities that need immediate attention. Users should urgently update to enhance security and efficiency.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VirtualBox, an x86 virtualisation solution

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VirtualBox, an x86
virtualisation solution.

Upstream support for the 4.1 release series has ended and since no
information is available which would allow backports of isolated security
fixes, security support for virtualbox in wheezy/oldstable needed to be
ended as well.
If you use virtualbox with externally procured VMs (e.g. through vagrant)
we advise you to update to Debian jessie.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 5.0.14-dfsg-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 5.0.14-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-2015-5307 CVE-2015-8104 CVE-2016-0495 CVE-2016-0592

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