DSA-2904-1 virtualbox -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2904-1 virtualbox -- security update

Date Reported:

15 Apr 2014

Affected Packages:

virtualbox

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-0981, CVE-2014-0983.

More information:

Francisco Falcon discovered that missing input sanitizing in the 3D acceleration code in VirtualBox could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the host system.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.10-dfsg-1+squeeze3.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u3.

For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.3.10-dfsg-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.3.10-dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your virtualbox packages.