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Mageia 6 High Severity: MGASA-2019-0055 Oracle VM VirtualBox DOS Risk

Easily exploitable 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 access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data . MGASA-2019-0055 - Updated virtualbox packages fix security vulnerabilities Publication date: 30 Jan 2019 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0055.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 6 CVE: CVE-2019-2446, CVE-2019-2448, CVE-2019-2450, CVE-2019-2451, CVE-2019-2500, CVE-2019-2501, CVE-2019-2504, CVE-2019-2505, CVE-2019-2506, CVE-2019-2508, CVE-2019-2509, CVE-2019-2511, CVE-2019-2520, CVE-2019-2521, CVE-2019-2522, CVE-2019-2523, CVE-2019-2524, CVE-2019-2525, CVE-2019-2526, CVE-2019-2527, CVE-2019-2548, CVE-2019-2552, CVE-2019-2553, CVE-2019-2554, CVE-2019-2555, CVE-2019-2556 Easily exploitable 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 access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data (CVE-2019-2446, CVE-2019-2448, CVE-2019-2450, CVE-2019-2451, CVE-2019-2554, CVE-2019-2555, CVE-2019-2556). Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low 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. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox (CVE-2019-2500, CVE-2019-2524, CVE-2019-2548, CVE-2019-2552). Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executesto compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data (CVE-2019-2501, CVE-2019-2504, CVE-2019-2505, CVE-2019-2506, CVE-2019-2553). Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low 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. 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-2019-2508, CVE-2019-2509, CVE-2019-2527). Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via SOAP to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. 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-2019-2511). Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low 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. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox (CVE-2019-2520, CVE-2019-2521, CVE-2019-2522, CVE-2019-2523, CVE-2019-2526). Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low 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. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data (CVE-2019-2525). Forother fixes in this update, see the referenced changelog. References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24213 - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24213 - - https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2019.html - - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2446 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2448 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2450 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2451 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2500 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2501 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2504 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2505 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2506 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2508 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2509 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2511 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2520 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2521 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2522 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2523 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2524 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2525 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2526 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2527 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2548 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2552 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2553 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2554 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2555 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2556 SRPMS: - 6/core/virtualbox-5.2.24-1.mga6 - 6/core/kmod-virtualbox-5.2.24-1.mga6 - 6/core/kmod-vboxadditions-5.2.24-1.mga6 . MGASA-2019-0055 - Updated virtualbox packages fix security vulnerabilities Publication date: 30 Jan . easily, exploitable, vulnerability, allows, privileged, attacker, logon, infrastructure. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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