Executive Summary

Summary
Title VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201805-08 First vendor Publication 2018-05-22
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-05-22
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in VirtualBox, the worst of which could allow an attacker to take control of VirtualBox.

Background

VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product from Oracle.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VirtualBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

An attacker could take control of VirtualBox resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, a Denial of Service condition, or other unspecified impacts.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All VirtualBox users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-5.1.36"

All VirtualBox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge -a -1 -v ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-5.1.36.122089"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-2830 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2830
[ 2 ] CVE-2018-2831 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2831
[ 3 ] CVE-2018-2835 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2835
[ 4 ] CVE-2018-2836 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2836
[ 5 ] CVE-2018-2837 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2837
[ 6 ] CVE-2018-2842 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2842
[ 7 ] CVE-2018-2843 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2843
[ 8 ] CVE-2018-2844 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2844
[ 9 ] CVE-2018-2845 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2845
[ 10 ] CVE-2018-2860 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2860

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-08

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201805-08.xml

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 199

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-05-23 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201805-08.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
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