DSA-3274-1 virtualbox -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-3456  

Jason Geffner discovered a buffer overflow in the emulated floppy disk drive, resulting in potential privilege escalation. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u5. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.18-dfsg-3+deb8u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.28-dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your virtualbox packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3274-1 virtualbox -- security update

Date Reported:
28 May 2015
Affected Packages:
virtualbox
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-3456.
More information:

Jason Geffner discovered a buffer overflow in the emulated floppy disk drive, resulting in potential privilege escalation.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u5.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.18-dfsg-3+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.28-dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your virtualbox packages.