VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202101-15

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in VirtualBox, the worst of which could result in privilege escalation.

Affected packages

Background

VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product from Oracle.

Description

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

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-6.1.18"
 

References

• CVE-2020-14872
• CVE-2020-14881
• CVE-2020-14884
• CVE-2020-14885
• CVE-2020-14886
• CVE-2020-14889
• CVE-2020-14892
• CVE-2021-2073
• CVE-2021-2074
• CVE-2021-2086
• CVE-2021-2111
• CVE-2021-2112
• CVE-2021-2119
• CVE-2021-2120
• CVE-2021-2121
• CVE-2021-2123
• CVE-2021-2124
• CVE-2021-2125
• CVE-2021-2126
• CVE-2021-2127
• CVE-2021-2128
• CVE-2021-2129
• CVE-2021-2130
• CVE-2021-2131

Release date
January 22, 2021

Latest revision
January 22, 2021: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 750782
• 766348