Oracle VirtualBox: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202310-07

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VirtualBox, leading to compomise of VirtualBox.

Affected packages

Package	app-emulation/virtualbox on all architectures
Affected versions	< 7.0.6 < 6.1.46
Unaffected versions	>= 7.0.6 >= 6.1.46

Background

VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product from Oracle.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Oracle VirtualBox, the worst of which may lead to VirtualBox compromise by an attacker with network access. 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

All Oracle VirtualBox users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-7.0.6"

If you still need to use VirtualBox 6:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-6.1.46" "=app-emulation/virtualbox-6*"

References

Release date
October 08, 2023

Latest revision
October 08, 2023: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

891327