glsa-201612-27.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-27">
  <title>VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in VirtualBox, the worst
    of which allows local users to escalate privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">virtualbox</product>
  <announced>2016-12-11</announced>
  <revised count="2">2016-12-11</revised>
  <bug>505274</bug>
  <bug>537218</bug>
  <bug>550964</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-emulation/virtualbox" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.3.28</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.3.28</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="app-emulation/virtualbox-bin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.3.28</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.3.28</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product from Oracle.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VirtualBox. Please
      review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Local attackers could cause a Denial of Service condition, execute
      arbitrary code, or escalate their privileges.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All VirtualBox users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-emulation/virtualbox-4.3.28"
    </code>
    
    <p>All VirtualBox-bin users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-4.3.28"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0981">CVE-2014-0981</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0983">CVE-2014-0983</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-6588">CVE-2014-6588</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-6589">CVE-2014-6589</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-6590">CVE-2014-6590</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-6595">CVE-2014-6595</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0377">CVE-2015-0377</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0418">CVE-2015-0418</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0427">CVE-2015-0427</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3456">CVE-2015-3456</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5608">CVE-2016-5608</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5610">CVE-2016-5610</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5611">CVE-2016-5611</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5613">CVE-2016-5613</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-11-23T00:13:06Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-11T23:42:01Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>