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 Severity: High
    Title: Oracle VirtualBox: Multiple Vulnerabilities
     Date: October 08, 2023
     Bugs: #891327
       ID: 202310-07

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VirtualBox, leading to
compomise of VirtualBox.

Background
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VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product from Oracle.

Affected packages
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Package                   Vulnerable    Unaffected
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app-emulation/virtualbox  < 7.0.6       >= 7.0.6

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Oracle VirtualBox, the
worst of which may lead to VirtualBox compromise by an attacker with
network access.

Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact
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Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Oracle VirtualBox users should upgrade to the latest version:

  # emerge --sync
  # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-7.0.6"

If you still need to use VirtualBox 6:

  # emerge --sync
  # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-6.1.46" "=app-emulation/virtualbox-6*"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2023-21884
      https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-21884
[ 2 ] CVE-2023-21885
      https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-21885
[ 3 ] CVE-2023-21886
      https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-21886
[ 4 ] CVE-2023-21889
      https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-21889
[ 5 ] CVE-2023-21898
      https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-21898
[ 6 ] CVE-2023-21899
      https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-21899

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

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-07

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2023 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5