MGASA-2017-0078

Description

Updated virtualbox packages fixes security vulnerabilities This update provides virtualbox 5.1.18 maintenance release and resolves at least the following security issues: A vulnerability in the GUI subcomponent of virtualbox allows unauthenticated attacker unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (bsc#1020856) (CVE-2016-5545). A vulnerability in the Shared Folder subcomponent of virtualbox allows high privileged attacker unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (bsc#1020856) (CVE-2017-3290). A vulnerability in the GUI subcomponent of virtualbox allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise virtualbox (bsc#1020856) (CVE-2017-3316). A vulnerability in the SVGA Emulation subcomponent of virtualbox allows low privileged attacker unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (bsc#1020856) (CVE-2017-3332). A vulnerability in the Shared Folder subcomponent of virtualbox allows high privileged attacker unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data and unauthorized access to critical data to all virtualbox accessible data (CVE-2017-3538). For other fixes in this update, see the referenced changelog.

Affected Systems

• mageia•kmod-vboxadditions

  < 5.1.18-1.mga5

• mageia•kmod-virtualbox

  < 5.1.18-1.mga5

• mageia•virtualbox

  < 5.1.18-1.mga5

References (3)

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0078.html
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20222
• https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog