Security
Security
Multiple vulnerabilities in VirtualBox were found, the worst of which allowing for privilege escalation.
| Package | app-emulation/virtualbox-bin on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 3.0.12 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 3.0.12 |
| Package | app-emulation/virtualbox-ose on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 3.0.12 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 3.0.12 |
| Package | app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 3.0.12 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 3.0.12 |
| Package | app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 3.0.12 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 3.0.12 |
The VirtualBox family provides powerful x86 virtualization products.
Thomas Biege of SUSE discovered multiple vulnerabilities:
A local, unprivileged attacker with the permission to run VirtualBox could gain root privileges. A guest OS local user could cause a Denial of Service (memory consumption) on the guest OS via unknown vectors.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All users of the binary version of VirtualBox should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-3.0.12"
All users of the Open Source version of VirtualBox should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-3.0.12"
All users of the binary VirtualBox Guest Additions should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.0.12"
All users of the Open Source VirtualBox Guest Additions should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions-3.0.12"