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Mageia 8: MGASA-2022-0390 Moderate: VirtualBox DoS and Compromise Risks

This update provides the upstream 6.1.40 maintenance release that fixes at least the following security vulnerabilities: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 6.1.40 contains a difficult to exploit vulnerability that allows high privileged attacker . MGASA-2022-0390 - Updated virtualbox packages fix security vulnerabilities Publication date: 27 Oct 2022 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0390.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 8 CVE: CVE-2022-21620, CVE-2022-21621, CVE-2022-21627, CVE-2022-39424, CVE-2022-39425, CVE-2022-39426 This update provides the upstream 6.1.40 maintenance release that fixes at least the following security vulnerabilities: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 6.1.40 contains a difficult to exploit vulnerability that allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox (CVE-2022-21620). Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 6.1.40 contains an easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox (CVE-2022-21621). Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 6.1.40 contains an easily exploitable 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 unauthorizedability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox (CVE-2022-21627). Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox prior to 6.1.40 contains a difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via VRDP to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox (CVE-2022-39424, CVE-2022-39425, CVE-2022-39426). For other fixes in this update, see the referenced changelog. References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30972 - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v40 - https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2022.html#AppendixOVIR - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21620 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21621 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21627 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39424 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39425 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39426 SRPMS: - 8/core/virtualbox-6.1.40-1.mga8 - 8/core/kmod-virtualbox-6.1.40-1.mga8 . The newest Mageia release fixes vulnerabilities in VirtualBox, tackling risks related to DoS attacks and potential unauthorized access.. VirtualBox Update, Mageia Security, VirtualBox Risks, Mageia Advisory. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Oct 27, 2022 Mageia