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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-313-1 virtualbox-ose -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

29 Sep 2015

Affected Packages:

virtualbox-ose

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-3792, CVE-2014-2486, CVE-2014-2488, CVE-2014-2489, CVE-2015-2594.

More information:

The latest maintenance release of the VirtualBox (OSE) 3.2.x series (i.e., version 3.2.28) has been uploaded to Debian LTS (squeeze). Thanks to Gianfranco Costamagna for preparing packages for review and upload by the Debian LTS Team.

Unfortunately, Oracle no longer provides information on specific security vulnerabilities in VirtualBox, thus we provide their latest 3.2.28 maintenance release in Debian LTS (squeeze) directly.

• CVE-2013-3792

  Oracle reported an unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle Virtualization VirtualBox prior to 3.2.18, 4.0.20, 4.1.28, and 4.2.18 allows local users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Core.

  The fix for CVE-2013-3792 prevents a virtio-net host DoS vulnerability by adding large frame support to IntNet, VirtioNet and NetFilter plus dropping oversized frames.

• CVE-2014-2486

  Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle Virtualization VirtualBox before 3.2.24, 4.0.26, 4.1.34, 4.2.26, and 4.3.12 allows local users to affect integrity and availability via unknown vectors related to Core.

  No further details have been provided, the attack range has been given as local, severity low.

• CVE-2014-2488

  Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle Virtualization VirtualBox before 3.2.24, 4.0.26, 4.1.34, 4.2.26, and 4.3.12 allows local users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Core.

  No further details can been provided, the attack range has been given as local, severity low.

• CVE-2014-2489

  Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle Virtualization VirtualBox before 3.2.24, 4.0.26, 4.1.34, 4.2.26, and 4.3.12 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Core.

  No further details can been provided, the attack range has been given as local, severity medium.

• CVE-2015-2594

  Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle Virtualization VirtualBox prior to 4.0.32, 4.1.40, 4.2.32, and 4.3.30 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Core.

  This update fixes an issue related to guests using bridged networking via WiFi.