Mageia 8: MGASA-2022-0390 Moderate: VirtualBox DoS and Compromise Risks
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October 27, 2022
This update provides the upstream 6.1.40 maintenance release that fixes at least the following security vulnerabilities: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 6.1.40 ...
Summary
This update provides the upstream 6.1.40 maintenance release that fixes
at least the following security vulnerabilities:
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 6.1.40 contains a
difficult to exploit vulnerability that allows high privileged attacker
with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to
compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM
VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope
change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover
of Oracle VM VirtualBox (CVE-2022-21620).
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 6.1.40 contains an easily
exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the
infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM
VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may
significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks
of this vulnerability c...
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30972
- https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v40
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2022.html#AppendixOVIR
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21620
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21621
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21627
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39424
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39425
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39426
Resolution
SRPMS
- 8/core/virtualbox-6.1.40-1.mga8
- 8/core/kmod-virtualbox-6.1.40-1.mga8
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Publication date: 27 Oct 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0390.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-21620,
CVE-2022-21621,
CVE-2022-21627,
CVE-2022-39424,
CVE-2022-39425,
CVE-2022-39426
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