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openSUSE Leap 42.1: 2017:0332-1 Important: VirtualBox Security Issues

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Calendar Grey January 30, 2017
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openSUSE has released a new version of VirtualBox to address severe security flaws related to four vulnerabilities affecting its functionality.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for virtualbox to version 5.0.32 fixes the following issues:

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2016-5545: Vulnerability in the GUI subcomponent of virtualbox

allows unauthenticated attacker unauthorized update, insert or delete

access to some data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of

VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial

denial of service (bsc#1020856).

- CVE-2017-3290: Vulnerability in the Shared Folder subcomponent of

virtualbox allows high privileged attacker unauthorized creation,

deletion or modification access to critical data and unauthorized

ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (bsc#1020856).

- CVE-2017-3316: Vulnerability in the GUI subcomponent of virtualbox

allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple

protocols to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox (bsc#1020856).

- CVE-2017-3332: Vulnerability in the SVGA...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-178=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

python-virtualbox-5.0.32-34.1

python-virtualbox-debuginfo-5.0.32-34.1

virtualbox-5.0.32-34.1

virtualbox-debuginfo-5.0.32-34.1

virtualbox-debugsource-5.0.32-34.1

virtualbox-devel-5.0.32-34.1

virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-5.0.32_k4.1.36_44-34.1

virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.0.32_k4.1.36_44-34.1

virtualbox-guest-tools-5.0.32-34.1

virtualbox-guest-tools-debuginfo-5.0.32-34.1

virtualbox-guest-x11-5.0.32-34.1

virtualbox-guest-x11-debuginfo-5.0.32-34.1

virtualbox-host-kmp-default-5.0.32_k4.1.36_44-34.1

virtualbox-host-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.0.32_k4.1.36_44-34.1

virtualbox-qt-5.0.32-34.1

virtualbox-qt-debuginfo-5.0.32-34.1

virtualbox-websrv-5.0.32-34.1

virtualbox-websrv-debuginfo-5.0.32-34.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons-5.0.32-34.1

virtualbox-host-source-5.0.32-34.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5545.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3290.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3316.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3332.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020856

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:0332-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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