🛡️ openSUSE-SU-2021:1393-1 — virtualbox (CVE-2021-35538 +4 more)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
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Description

Security update for virtualbox

This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues:

Version bump to 6.1.28 (released October 19 2021 by Oracle)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

  • VMM: Fixed guru meditation while booting nested-guests accessing debug registers under certain conditions
  • UI: Bug fixes for touchpad-based scrolling
  • VMSVGA: Fixed VM black screen issue on first resize after restoring from saved state (bug #20067)
  • VMSVGA: Fixed display corruption on Linux Mint (bug #20513)
  • Storage: Fixed a possible write error under certain circumstances when using VHD images (bug #20512)
  • Network: Multiple updates in virtio-net device support
  • Network: Disconnecting cable in saved VM state now is handled properly by virtio-net
  • Network: More administrative control over network ranges, see user manual
  • NAT: Fixed not rejecting TFTP requests with absolute pathnames (bug #20589)
  • Audio: Fixed VM session aborting after PC hibernation (bug #20516)
  • Audio: Fixed setting the line-in volume of the HDA emulation on modern Linux guests
  • Audio: Fixed resuming playback of the AC'97 emulation while a snapshot has been taken
  • API: Added bindings support for Python 3.9 (bug #20252)
  • API: Fixed rare hang of VM when changing settings at runtime
  • Linux host: Improved kernel modules installation detection which prevents unnecessary modules rebuild
  • Host Services: Shared Clipboard: Prevent guest clipboard reset when clipboard sharing is disabled (bug #20487)
  • Host Services: Shared Clipboard over VRDP: Fixed to continue working when guest service reconnects to host (bug #20366)
  • Host Services: Shared Clipboard over VRDP: Fixed preventing remote RDP client to hang when guest has no clipboard data to report
  • Linux Host and Guest: Introduced initial support for kernels 5.14 and 5.15
  • Linux Host and Guest: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.5 kernel
  • Windows Guest: Introduced Windows 11 guest support, including unattended installation
  • Fixes CVE-2021-35538, CVE-2021-35545, CVE-2021-35540, CVE-2021-35542, and CVE-2021-2475 (boo#1191869)
  • Use kernel_module_directory macro for kernel modules (boo#1191526)
  • Finish UsrMerge for VirtualBox components (boo#1191104).

Affected software

openSUSE-SU-2021:1393-1 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • virtualbox (fixed in 6.1.28-lp153.2.12.1)
  • virtualbox-kmp (fixed in 6.1.28-lp153.2.12.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 26 October 2021 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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www.suse.com (Web)
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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-10-26
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
virtualbox 6.1.28-lp153.2.12.1
virtualbox-kmp 6.1.28-lp153.2.12.1

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