Bug 5698

Summary: VirtualBox 6.1.12 available including security fixes
Product: Fedora Reporter: jayjayjazz
Component: VirtualBoxAssignee: Sérgio Basto <sergio>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: leigh123linux, vascom2
Priority: P1    
Version: f32   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: GNU/Linux   
URL: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v12
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Description jayjayjazz 2020-07-15 20:22:45 CEST 
VirtualBox 6.1.12 was released on July 14 2020

Changelog:

UI: Fixes for Log-Viewer search-backward icon
Devices: Fixes and improvements for the BusLogic SCSI controller emulation
Serial Port: Regression fixes in FIFO data handling
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration: Experimental new type of network attachment, allowing local VM to act as if it was run in cloud
API: improved resource management in the guest control functionality
VBoxManage: fixed command option parsing for the "snapshot edit" sub-command
VBoxManage: Fix crash of 'VBoxManage internalcommands repairhd' when processing invalid input (bug #19579)
Guest Additions, 3D: New experimental GLX graphics output
Guest Additions, 3D: Fixed releasing texture objects, which could cause guest crashes
Guest Additions: Fixed writes to a file on a shared folder not being reflected on the host when the file is mmap'ed and the used Linux kernel is between version 4.10.0 and 4.11.x
Guest Additions: Fixed the shared folder driver on 32bit Windows 8 and newer returning an error when flushing writes to a file which is mapped into memory under rare circumstances
Guest Additions: Improve resize coverage for VMSVGA graphics controller
Guest Additions: Fix issues detecting guest additions ISO at runtime
Guest Additions: Fixed German translation encoding for Windows GA installer

Overview of fixed security issues:
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html#AppendixOVIR
Comment 1 leigh scott 2020-07-15 20:46:45 CEST 
None of the security issue warrant marking this as major as they are all local.
Comment 2 Sérgio Basto 2020-07-15 22:28:25 CEST 
Guest-additions have some news [1] I don't want break all again 


[1] 
Guest Additions, 3D: New experimental GLX graphics output
Guest Additions, 3D: Fixed releasing texture objects, which could cause guest crashes
Guest Additions: Fixed writes to a file on a shared folder not being reflected on the host when the file is mmap'ed and the used Linux kernel is between version 4.10.0 and 4.11.x
Guest Additions: Improve resize coverage for VMSVGA graphics controller

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1856947
Comment 3 Sérgio Basto 2020-07-25 14:34:40 CEST 
build fails for me , and haven't found any fix yet
Comment 4 Sérgio Basto 2020-07-25 16:30:38 CEST 
I found the fix in Debian builds ... hold on