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Debian DSA-2878-1 : virtualbox - security update

low Nessus Plugin ID 72993

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Matthew Daley discovered multiple vulnerabilities in VirtualBox, a x86 virtualisation solution, resulting in denial of service, privilege escalation and an information leak.

Solution

Upgrade the virtualbox packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.10-dfsg-1+squeeze2 of the virtualbox-ose source package.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u2.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=735410

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/virtualbox

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2878

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 72993

File Name: debian_DSA-2878.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:virtualbox, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-5892, CVE-2014-0404, CVE-2014-0406, CVE-2014-0407

BID: 64905, 64909, 64911, 64913

DSA: 2878