GLSA 201401-13: VirtualBox: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	VirtualBox: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date:	01/20/2014
Bugs:	#434872, #498166
ID:	201401-13

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in VirtualBox, allowing local attackers to escalate their privileges or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product from Oracle.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-emulation/virtualbox	< 4.2.22	>= 4.2.22	All supported architectures
app-emulation/virtualbox-bin	< 4.2.22	>= 4.2.22	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Virtualbox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A local attacker in a guest virtual machine may be able to escalate privileges or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All virtualbox users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-4.2.22"

All virtualbox-bin users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-4.2.22"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-13.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.