Security update for virtualbox (important)

An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description:

This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues:

Version bump to 6.1.28 (released October 19 2021 by Oracle)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: Fixed guru meditation while booting nested-guests accessing debug
  registers under certain conditions

• UI: Bug fixes for touchpad-based scrolling

• VMSVGA: Fixed VM black screen issue on first resize after restoring from
  saved state (bug #20067)

• VMSVGA: Fixed display corruption on Linux Mint (bug #20513)

• Storage: Fixed a possible write error under certain circumstances when
  using VHD images (bug #20512)

• Network: Multiple updates in virtio-net device support

• Network: Disconnecting cable in saved VM state now is handled properly
  by virtio-net

• Network: More administrative control over network ranges, see user manual

• NAT: Fixed not rejecting TFTP requests with absolute pathnames (bug
  #20589)

• Audio: Fixed VM session aborting after PC hibernation (bug #20516)

• Audio: Fixed setting the line-in volume of the HDA emulation on modern
  Linux guests

• Audio: Fixed resuming playback of the AC’97 emulation while a snapshot
  has been taken

• API: Added bindings support for Python 3.9 (bug #20252)

• API: Fixed rare hang of VM when changing settings at runtime

• Linux host: Improved kernel modules installation detection which
  prevents unnecessary modules rebuild

• Host Services: Shared Clipboard: Prevent guest clipboard reset when
  clipboard sharing is disabled (bug #20487)

• Host Services: Shared Clipboard over VRDP: Fixed to continue working
  when guest service reconnects to host (bug #20366)

• Host Services: Shared Clipboard over VRDP: Fixed preventing remote RDP
  client to hang when guest has no clipboard data to report

• Linux Host and Guest: Introduced initial support for kernels 5.14 and
  5.15

• Linux Host and Guest: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.5 kernel

• Windows Guest: Introduced Windows 11 guest support, including unattended
  installation

• Fixes CVE-2021-35538, CVE-2021-35545, CVE-2021-35540, CVE-2021-35542,
  and CVE-2021-2475 (boo#1191869)

• Use kernel_module_directory macro for kernel modules (boo#1191526)

• Finish UsrMerge for VirtualBox components (boo#1191104).

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or “zypper patch”.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

• openSUSE Leap 15.2:

  zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1403=1