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openSUSE Security Update : virtualbox (openSUSE-2015-839)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87116

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The virtualbox package was updated to version 4.2.36 to fix the following security and non security issues :

 - Version bump tp 4.2.36 (released 2015-11-11 by Oracle)

 - several fixes - Oracle is not more specific

 - Version bump to 4.2.34 (released 2015-10-20 by Oracle) (bsc#951432)

 - CVE-2015-4813: Only Windows guests are impacted. Windows guests without VirtualBox Guest Additions installed are not affected.

 - CVE-2015-4896: Only VMs with Remote Display feature (RDP) enabled are impacted by CVE-2015-4896.

 - several fixes

 - Linux hosts: Linux 4.2 fix

 - Linux hosts: Linux 4.3 compile fixes

 - Windows hosts: hardening fixes

 - Linux Additions: Linux 4.2 fixes (bug #14227)

Solution

Update the affected virtualbox packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=951432

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87116

File Name: openSUSE-2015-839.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/1/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-virtualbox, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python-virtualbox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-kmp-default-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-kmp-desktop, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-kmp-desktop-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-kmp-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-kmp-pae-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-guest-x11-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-host-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-host-kmp-default-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-host-kmp-desktop, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-host-kmp-desktop-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-host-kmp-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-host-kmp-pae-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-host-source, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-qt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-qt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-websrv, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:virtualbox-websrv-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4813, CVE-2015-4896