MGASA-2021-0197

This update provides the upstream 6.1.20 maintenance release that fixes at least the following security vulnerabilities:

A difficult to exploit vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) prior to 6.1.20 allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox (CVE-2021-2145, CVE-2021-2309, CVE-2021-2310).

An easily exploitable vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) prior to 6.1.20 allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox (CVE-2021-2250).

An easily exploitable vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) prior to 6.1.20 allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data (CVE-2021-2264).

An easily exploitable vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) prior to 6.1.20 allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data (CVE-2021-2266, CVE-2021-2306).

A difficult to exploit vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) prior to 6.1.20 allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via RDP to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle VM VirtualBox (CVE-2021-2279).

An easily exploitable vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) prior to 6.1.20 allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data (CVE-2021-2280, CVE-2021-2282, CVE-2021-2283, CVE-2021-2284, CVE-2021-2285, CVE-2021-2287).

An easily exploitable vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) prior to 6.1.20 allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data. (CVE-2021-2281, CVE-2021-2284, CVE-2021-2286).

An easily exploitable vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) prior to 6.1.20 allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data (CVE-2021-2291).

An easily exploitable vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox (component: Core) prior to 6.1.20 allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data (CVE-2021-2296, CVE-2021-2297).

This update also fixes the following issues: - fixes a zombie spawning process for Virtualbox (mga#27362) - adds a workaround for a non-working file selection dialog with Plasma (Mageia 8 only, mga#27433) - fixes installing the packaged Oracle VBoxDTrace Extension Pack (mga#27936) - removes a broken VBoxREM.so symlink that belongs to a feature not supported in virtualbox 6.1 series (mga#28734).

For other upstream fixes in this update, see the referenced changelog.