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Mageia 8 MGASA-2023-0160 Critical: VirtualBox Compromise Risks

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Calendar Grey May 6, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MAGSA-2023-0161 outlines a significant update for VirtualBox addressing urgent vulnerabilities impacting Mageia 8 installations.
This update provides the upstream 7.0.8 maintenance release that fixes at least the following security vulnerabilities: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 7.0.8

Summary

This update provides the upstream 7.0.8 maintenance release that fixes at least the following security vulnerabilities:
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 7.0.8. A difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low 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-2023-21987, CVE-2023-21988).
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 7.0.8. 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 can resul...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31813

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- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2023.html#AppendixOVIR

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-21987

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-21988

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-21989

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-21990

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-21991

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-21999

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22000

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22001

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22002

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical threat virtualbox mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/virtualbox-7.0.8-1.mga8

- 8/core/kmod-virtualbox-7.0.8-1.mga8

Severity
critical
Lowest
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Critical

Publication date: 06 May 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0160.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-21987, CVE-2023-21988, CVE-2023-21989, CVE-2023-21990, CVE-2023-21991, CVE-2023-21999, CVE-2023-22000, CVE-2023-22001, CVE-2023-22002

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical threat virtualbox mageia

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