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openSUSE Security Update : virtualbox (openSUSE-2021-165)

high Nessus Plugin ID 145423

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues :

Version update to 6.1.18 (released January 19 2021)

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

 - Nested VM: Fixed hangs when executing SMP nested-guests under certain conditions on Intel hosts (bug #19315, #19561)

 - OCI integration: Cloud Instance parameters parsing is improved on import (bug #19156)

 - Network: UDP checksum offloading in e1000 no longer produces zero checksums (bug #19930)

 - Network: Fixed Host-Only Ethernet Adapter DHCP, guest os can not get IP on host resume (bug #19620)

 - NAT: Fixed mss parameter handing (bug #15256)

 - macOS host: Multiple optimizations for BigSur

 - Audio: Fixed issues with audio playback after host goes to sleep (bug #18594)

 - Documentation: Some content touch-up and table formatting fixes

 - Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.10 (bug #20055)

 - Solaris host: Fix regression breaking VGA text mode since version 6.1.0

 - Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting CentOS 8.2-2004 and later (bug #20091)

 - Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting Linux kernels 3.2.0 through 3.2.50 (bug #20006)

 - Guest Additions: Fixed a VM segfault on copy with shared clipboard with X11 (bug #19226)

 - Shared Folder: Fixed error with remounting on Linux guests

 - Fixes CVE-2021-2074, boo#1181197 and CVE-2021-2129, boo#1181198.

 - Disable build of guest modules. These are included in recent kernels

 - Fix additional mouse control dialog issues.

Solution

Update the affected virtualbox packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1181197

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1181198

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 145423

File Name: openSUSE-2021-165.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/26/2021

Updated: 1/26/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-2074

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-kmp-preempt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-qt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-virtualbox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-kmp-preempt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-kmp-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-host-source, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-virtualbox, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-qt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-websrv, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-vnc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-websrv-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-x11-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-kmp-default-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-2074, CVE-2021-2129