{"id":"MGASA-2016-0259","summary":"Updated VirtualBox 5.1 packages fix security vulnerability","details":"This update provides the new VirtualBox 5.1 series, currently based\non 5.1.2 providing several perfomance enhancements\n\nThe highlights include:\n* VMM: new APIC and I/O APIC implementations that result in significantly\n  improved performance in certain situations (for example with networking)\n* VMM: activate the x2APIC by default for Linux guests\n* VMM: added support for Hyper-V paravirtualized debugging of Windows guests\n* VMM: emulate even more MMIO and shadow pagetable exits without going back\n  to user mode\n* GUI: overall migration to Qt5\n* GUI: passive API event listener improving the VM GUI performance and \n  response time\n* Audio: added HDA (High Definition Audio) support for newer Linux guests\n* Audio: added on-demand timers which should improve the overall performance\n  and reduce the CPU consumption\n* Audio: more fine-grained volume control for the AC'97 emulation, which now\n  also takes the master volume control into account\n* better support for Python 3 \n\nIt also resolves the following security issue:\n\nUnspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle\nVirtualization VirtualBox before 5.0.26 allows local users to affect\navailability via vectors related to Core (CVE-2016-3597). \n\nFor other fixes, see the referenced changelog.\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:23:34.057051491Z","published":"2016-07-26T19:11:30Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-3597"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0259.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18944"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"virtualbox","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/virtualbox?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.1.2-1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0259.json"}},{"package":{"name":"kmod-virtualbox","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/kmod-virtualbox?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.1.2-1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0259.json"}},{"package":{"name":"kmod-vboxadditions","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/kmod-vboxadditions?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.1.2-1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0259.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}