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Mageia: 2020-0466 Moderate: VirtualBox High-Priority Code Threats

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The latest patch from Mageia for Oracle VM VirtualBox tackles various security vulnerabilities, particularly issues that allow for elevated privilege code execution risks.
Vulnerabilities in the Oracle VM VirtualBox are fixed in version 6.1.16

Summary

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...

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References

- 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

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/kmod-virtualbox-6.1.16-4.mga7

- 7/core/virtualbox-6.1.16-4.mga7

Severity
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Publication date: 21 Dec 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0466.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-14872, CVE-2020-14881, CVE-2020-14884, CVE-2020-14885, CVE-2020-14886, CVE-2020-14889, CVE-2020-14892

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