VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities

VirtualBox: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VirtualBox, allowing local attackers to gain escalated privileges. virtualbox 2012-04-09 2012-04-09 386317 399807 local 4.1.8 4.1.8 4.1.4 4.1.8

VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization product from Oracle.

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

A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges via unknown attack vectors.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All VirtualBox users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-4.1.8"

All VirtualBox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      ">=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-4.1.8"

CVE-2010-4414 CVE-2011-2300 CVE-2011-2305 CVE-2012-0105 CVE-2012-0111 ackle ackle