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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-268-1 virtualbox-ose -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

06 Jul 2015

Affected Packages:

virtualbox-ose

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-0377, CVE-2015-0418, CVE-2015-3456.

More information:

Three vulnerabilities have been fixed in the Debian squeeze-lts version of VirtualBox (package name: virtualbox-ose), a x86 virtualisation solution.

• CVE-2015-0377

  Avoid VirtualBox allowing local users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Core, which might result in denial of service. (Other issue than CVE-2015-0418).

• CVE-2015-0418

  Avoid VirtualBox allowing local users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Core, which might result in denial of service. (Other issue than CVE-2015-0377).

• CVE-2015-3456

  The Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) in QEMU, also used in VirtualBox and other virtualization products, allowed local guest users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and guest crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the (1) FD_CMD_READ_ID, (2) FD_CMD_DRIVE_SPECIFICATION_COMMAND, or other unspecified commands, aka VENOM.