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Gentoo FoundationGLSA-201805-08

HistoryMay 22, 2018 - 12:00 a.m.

VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

2018-05-2200:00:00

Gentoo Foundation

security.gentoo.org

424

CVSS2

4.6

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

8.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

23.1%

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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

An attacker could take control of VirtualBox resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, a Denial of Service condition, or other unspecified impacts.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All VirtualBox users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-emulation/virtualbox-5.1.36"

All VirtualBox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 "&gt;=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-5.1.36.122089"

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyallapp-emulation/virtualbox< 5.1.36UNKNOWN
Gentooanyallapp-emulation/virtualbox-bin< 5.1.36.122089UNKNOWN