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openSUSE: 2021:0165-1 critical: VirtualBox Issues Resolved

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Calendar Grey January 25, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A critical enhancement for VirtualBox on openSUSE addresses security vulnerabilities and boosts efficiency for end-users.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues:

Version update to 6.1.18 (released January 19 2021)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

- Nested VM: Fixed hangs when executing SMP nested-guests under certain

conditions on Intel hosts (bug #19315, #19561)

- OCI integration: Cloud Instance parameters parsing is improved on import

(bug #19156)

- Network: UDP checksum offloading in e1000 no longer produces zero

checksums (bug #19930)

- Network: Fixed Host-Only Ethernet Adapter DHCP, guest os can not get IP

on host resume (bug #19620)

- NAT: Fixed mss parameter handing (bug #15256)

- macOS host: Multiple optimizations for BigSur

- Audio: Fixed issues with audio playback after host goes to sleep (bug

#18594)

- Documentation: Some content touch-up and table formatting fixes

- Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.10 (bug #20055)

- Solaris host: Fix regression breaking...

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical threat software performance improvement important update openSUSE virtualbox

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-165=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-host-source-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

python3-virtualbox-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

python3-virtualbox-debuginfo-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-debuginfo-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-debugsource-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-devel-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-guest-tools-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-guest-tools-debuginfo-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-guest-x11-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-guest-x11-debuginfo-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-kmp-debugsource-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-kmp-default-6.1.18_k5.3.18_lp152.60-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-kmp-default-debuginfo-6.1.18_k5.3.18_lp152.60-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-kmp-preempt-6.1.18_k5.3.18_lp152.60-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-kmp-preempt-debuginfo-6.1.18_k5.3.18_lp152.60-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-qt-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-qt-debuginfo-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-vnc-6.1.18-lp152.2.11.1

virtualbox-websrv-...

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References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-2074.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-2129.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181197

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181198

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0165-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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security advisory update critical threat software performance improvement important update openSUSE virtualbox

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