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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2022:10129-1 Important Security Update for VirtualBox

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2022
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The recent openSUSE patch effectively mitigates significant threats in VirtualBox, implementing crucial repairs for a pair of acknowledged security flaws.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available

Description

This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues:

Version bump to 6.1.38r86 released by Oracle September 02 2022

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

- GUI: Improvements in Native Language Support area

- Main: OVF Export: Added support for exporting VMs containing Virtio-SCSI

controllers - Recording settings: Fixed a regression which could cause not starting

the COM server (VBoxSVC) under certain circumstances (bug #21034)

- Recording: More deterministic naming for recorded files (will now

overwrite old .webm files if present)

- Linux Host and Guest Additions installer: Improved check for systemd

presence in the system (bug #19033)

- Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.0

- Linux Guest Additions: Additional fixes for kernel RHEL 9.1 (bug #21065)

- Windows Guest Additions: Improvements in Drag and Drop area

- Fixes permission problem with /dev/vboxuser...

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Topics Covered

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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 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2022-10129=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64):

python3-virtualbox-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

python3-virtualbox-debuginfo-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-debuginfo-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-debugsource-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-devel-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-guest-tools-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-guest-tools-debuginfo-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-kmp-debugsource-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-kmp-default-6.1.38_k5.3.18_150300.59.93-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-kmp-default-debuginfo-6.1.38_k5.3.18_150300.59.93-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-kmp-preempt-6.1.38_k5.3.18_150300.59.93-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-kmp-preempt-debuginfo-6.1.38_k5.3.18_150300.59.93-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-qt-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-qt-debuginfo-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-vnc-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-websrv-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-websrv-debuginfo-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch):

virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtualbox-guest-source-6.1.38-lp153.2.36.1

virtual...

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References

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

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1201720

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1203086

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1203306

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1203370

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:10129-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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