Updated virtualbox & kmod-virtualbox packages fix security vulnerabilities
Publication date: 04 Jan 2025Modification date: 04 Jan 2025
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 9
CVE: CVE-2024-21259 , CVE-2024-21263 , CVE-2024-21273 , CVE-2024-21248 , CVE-2024-21253
Description
Vulnerabilities were found in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle
Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected
are prior to 7.0.22 and prior to 7.1.2. A difficult to exploit
vulnerability allows a high privileged attacker with logon to the
infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise an Oracle
VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox,
attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change).
Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of
Oracle VirtualBox VMs. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.5 (Confidentiality,
Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector:
(CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33754
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2024.html#AppendixOVIR
- https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v22
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-21259
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-21263
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-21273
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-21248
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-21253
SRPMS
9/core
- virtualbox-7.0.22-1.mga9
- kmod-virtualbox-7.0.22-62.mga9