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openSUSE Leap 42.1: 2017:1141-1 Important: VirtualBox Security Fix

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Calendar Grey May 2, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A crucial announcement regarding the security patch for Fedora's VirtualBox tackles several vulnerabilities. Make sure your installation is current.
An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update to virtualbox 5.0.40 fixes the following issues:

These security issues were fixed (bsc#1034854):

- CVE-2017-3513: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of

Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Core). Difficult to exploit

vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the

infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle

VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in

unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible

data.

- CVE-2017-3538: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of

Oracle Virtualization (subcomponent: Shared Folder). Difficult to

exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the

infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle

VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in

unauthorized creation, deletion or modification...

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security advisory critical threat important openSUSE virtualbox

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-2017-534=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons-5.0.40-40.1

virtualbox-host-source-5.0.40-40.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

python-virtualbox-5.0.40-40.1

python-virtualbox-debuginfo-5.0.40-40.1

virtualbox-5.0.40-40.1

virtualbox-debuginfo-5.0.40-40.1

virtualbox-debugsource-5.0.40-40.1

virtualbox-devel-5.0.40-40.1

virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-5.0.40_k4.1.39_53-40.1

virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.0.40_k4.1.39_53-40.1

virtualbox-guest-tools-5.0.40-40.1

virtualbox-guest-tools-debuginfo-5.0.40-40.1

virtualbox-guest-x11-5.0.40-40.1

virtualbox-guest-x11-debuginfo-5.0.40-40.1

virtualbox-host-kmp-default-5.0.40_k4.1.39_53-40.1

virtualbox-host-kmp-default-debuginfo-5.0.40_k4.1.39_53-40.1

virtualbox-qt-5.0.40-40.1

virtualbox-qt-debuginfo-5.0.40-40.1

virtualbox-websrv-5.0.40-40.1

virtualbox-websrv-debuginfo-5.0.40-40.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3513.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3538.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3558.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3559.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3561.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3563.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3575.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3576.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-3587.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034854

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1141-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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