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openSUSE: 2022:10067-1 Important: VirtualBox Security Update

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Calendar Grey July 27, 2022
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Essential patches for openSUSE targeting various weaknesses in virtualbox to improve overall system protection.
An update that solves 7 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues:

- Save and restore FPU status during interrupt. (boo#1199803)

- Update support of building with Python

- Replace SDL-devel BuildRequires with pkgconfig(sdl): allow to use

sdl12_compat as an alternative.

Version bump to 6.1.36 released by Oracle July 19 2022

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

- VMM: Fixed possible Linux guest kernel crash when configuring

Speculative Store Bypass for a single vCPU VM

- GUI: In the storage page of the virtual machine settings dialog, fixed a

bug which disrupted mouse interaction with the native file selector on

KDE

- NAT: Prevent issue when host resolver incorrectly returned NXDOMAIN for

unsupported queries (bug #20977)

- Audio: General improvements in saved state area

- Recording: Various fixes for settings handling

- VGA: Performance improvements for screen updates when VBE banking is used

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Topics Covered

security advisory update threat important system security 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 15.4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2022-10067=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch):

virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-guest-source-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-host-source-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64):

python3-virtualbox-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

python3-virtualbox-debuginfo-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-debuginfo-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-debugsource-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-devel-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-guest-tools-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-guest-tools-debuginfo-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-guest-x11-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-guest-x11-debuginfo-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-kmp-debugsource-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-kmp-default-6.1.36_k5.14.21_150400.24.11-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-kmp-default-debuginfo-6.1.36_k5.14.21_150400.24.11-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-qt-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-qt-debuginfo-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-vnc-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-websrv-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

virtualbox-websrv-debuginfo-6.1.36-lp154.2.7.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-21465.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-21471.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-21487.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-21488.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-21491.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-21554.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-21571.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1198676

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1198677

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1198678

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1198679

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1198680

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1198703

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1199803

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1201720

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:10067-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.4 ble.

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Topics Covered

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