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Mageia: 2023-0335 High Severity: Oracle VirtualBox DoS Threats

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Calendar Grey December 4, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.0.x releases address critical security threats affecting Mageia platforms. Explore their consequences and resolutions.
This update fixes several security issues and other bugs, among them: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core)

Summary

This update fixes several security issues and other bugs, among them:
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.12. 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 result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. Note: Only applicable to 7.0.x platform. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CV...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32490

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32587

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- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2023.html#AppendixOVIR

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22098

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22099

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22100

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/virtualbox-7.0.12-2.mga9

- 9/core/kmod-virtualbox-7.0.12-38.mga9

Publication date: 04 Dec 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0335.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-22098, CVE-2023-22099, CVE-2023-22100

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