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Mageia 9: MGASA-2025-0027 critical: Oracle VM VirtualBox partial DOS

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2025
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2025-0027 updates fix serious Oracle VM VirtualBox vulnerabilities affecting specific versions.
Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core)

Summary

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.24 and prior to 7.1.6. 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 creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33952

- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2025.html#AppendixOVIR

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21571

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21533

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/virtualbox-7.0.24-1.mga9

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Publication date: 27 Jan 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0027.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2025-21571, CVE-2025-21533

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