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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2878-1 (virtualbox - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Low

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

3.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

10 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Matthew Daley discovered multiple vulnerabilities in VirtualBox, an x86 virtualisation solution, resulting in denial of service, privilege escalation and an information leak.

Affected Software

Affected Software

virtualbox on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.10-dfsg-1+squeeze2 of the virtualbox-ose source package. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u2. For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.3.6-dfsg-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.3.6-dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your virtualbox packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)