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Mageia 8: MGASA-2023-0239 Moderate: VirtualBox DoS and Exploit Risks

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Fedora 2023-0421 patches KVM to address severe vulnerabilities impacting Red Hat's virtualization technology.
This update provides the upstream 7.0.10 maintenance release that fixes at least the following security vulnerabilities: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 7.0.10 ...

Summary

This update provides the upstream 7.0.10 maintenance release that fixes at least the following security vulnerabilities:
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 7.0.10 contains an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox (CVE-2023-22016).
Vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 7.0.10 contains a difficult to exploit vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access via RDP to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox (CVE-2023-22018).
For other fixes in this update, see the referenced changelog.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32124

- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2023.html#AppendixOVIR

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22016

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22018

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update dos exploit risk virtualbox mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/virtualbox-7.0.10-1.mga8

- 8/core/kmod-virtualbox-7.0.10-1.mga8

Publication date: 23 Jul 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0239.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-22016, CVE-2023-22018

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Topics Covered

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