An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.
Description:
This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues:
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Remove package virtualbox-guest-x11, which is no longer needed.
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Fix screen resizing under Wayland (boo#1194126 and boo#1194126)
Version bump to 6.1.36 released by Oracle July 19 2022
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: Fixed possible Linux guest kernel crash when configuring
Speculative Store Bypass for a single vCPU VM
- GUI: In the storage page of the virtual machine settings dialog, fixed a
bug which disrupted mouse interaction with the native file selector on
KDE
- NAT: Prevent issue when host resolver incorrectly returned NXDOMAIN for
unsupported queries (bug #20977)
- Audio: General improvements in saved state area
- Recording: Various fixes for settings handling
- VGA: Performance improvements for screen updates when VBE banking is used
- USB: Fixed rare crashes when detaching a USB device
- ATA: Fixed NT4 guests taking a minute to eject CDs
- vboximg-mount: Fixed broken write support (bug #20896)
- SDK: Fixed Python bindings incorrectly trying to convert arbitrary byte
data into unicode objects with Python 3, causing exceptions (bug #19740)
- API: Fixed an issue when virtual USB mass storage devices or virtual USB
DVD drives are added while the VM is not running are by default not
marked as hot-pluggable
- API: Initial support for Python 3.10
- API: Solaris OS types cleanup
- Linux and Solaris hosts: Allow to mount shared folder if it is
represented as a symlink on a host side (bug #17491)
- Linux Host and Guest drivers: Introduced initial support for kernels
5.18, 5.19 and RHEL 9.1 (bugs #20914, #20941)
- Linux Host and Guest drivers: Better support for kernels built with
clang compiler (bugs #20425 and #20998)
- Solaris Guest Additions: General improvements in installer area
- Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize in VMSVGA graphics
configuration
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed multi-screen handling in
VBoxVGA and VBoxSVGA graphics configuration
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Added support for setting primary
screen via VBoxManage
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed X11 resources leak when
resizing guest screens
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed file descriptor leak when
starting a process using guest control (bug #20902)
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed guest control executing
processes as root
- Linux Guest Additions: Improved guests booting time by preventing kernel
modules from being rebuilt when it is not necessary (bug #20502)
- Windows Guest Additions: Fixed VBoxTray crash on startup in NT4 guests
on rare circumstances
- Fixes CVE-2022-21571) VUL-0: CVE-2022-21571,CVE-2022-21554 - boo#1201720
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: