Vulnerabilities in the Oracle VM VirtualBox are fixed in version 6.1.16.
An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on
the target guest system in order to exploit this vulnerability which can lead
to execute code in the context of the hypervisor. (CVE-2020-14872).
An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on
the target guest system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
The specific flaw exists within the shader_generate_main function. The issue
results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can
result in a read past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker can
leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute code in
the context of the hypervisor. (CVE-2020-14881).
An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on
the target guest system in order to exploit this vulnerability.
The specific flaw exists within the shader_record_register_usage functio...
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27479
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html#AppendixOVIR
- https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v16
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14872
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14881
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14884
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14885
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14886
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14889
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14892
- 7/core/kmod-virtualbox-6.1.16-4.mga7
- 7/core/virtualbox-6.1.16-4.mga7
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