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Gentoo: GLSA-202301-45 Critical: OpenSSL Vulnerability Exploit

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Calendar Grey January 20, 2014
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Uncover various vulnerabilities related to VirtualBox in Gentoo's urgent warning, safeguarding your systems.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in VirtualBox, allowing local attackers to escalate their privileges or cause a Denial of Service condition

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Virtualbox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity privilege escalation Denial of Service VirtualBox

Resolution

All virtualbox users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-4.2.22"
All virtualbox-bin users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-4.2.22"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-3221 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3221 [ 2 ] CVE-2013-5892 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5892 [ 3 ] CVE-2014-0404 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0404 [ 4 ] CVE-2014-0405 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0405 [ 5 ] CVE-2014-0406 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0406 [ 6 ] CVE-2014-0407 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0407

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201401-13
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: VirtualBox: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: January 20, 2014
Bugs: #434872, #498166
ID: 201401-13

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity privilege escalation Denial of Service VirtualBox

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in VirtualBox, allowing local attackers to escalate their privileges or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product from Oracle.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-emulation/virtualbox < 4.2.22 >= 4.2.22 2 app-emulation/virtualbox-bin < 4.2.22 >= 4.2.22 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages

Impact

===== A local attacker in a guest virtual machine may be able to escalate privileges or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.