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GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2016-259
GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2016-259
Advisory Published
This update provides the new VirtualBox 5.1 series, currently based
on 5.1.2 providing several perfomance enhancements
The highlights include:
* VMM: new APIC and I/O APIC implementations that result in significantly
improved performance in certain situations (for example with networking)
* VMM: activate the x2APIC by default for Linux guests
* VMM: added support for Hyper-V paravirtualized debugging of Windows guests
* VMM: emulate even more MMIO and shadow pagetable exits without going back
to user mode
* GUI: overall migration to Qt5
* GUI: passive API event listener improving the VM GUI performance and
response time
* Audio: added HDA (High Definition Audio) support for newer Linux guests
* Audio: added on-demand timers which should improve the overall performance
and reduce the CPU consumption
* Audio: more fine-grained volume control for the AC'97 emulation, which now
also takes the master volume control into account
* better support for Python 3
It also resolves the following security issue:
Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle
Virtualization VirtualBox before 5.0.26 allows local users to affect
availability via vectors related to Core (CVE-2016-3597).
For other fixes, see the referenced changelog.
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mageia | kmod-virtualbox | 0 (affected), 5.1.2-1.mga5 (unaffected) | — |
| Mageia | kmod-vboxadditions | 0 (affected), 5.1.2-1.mga5 (unaffected) | — |
| Mageia | virtualbox | 0 (affected), 5.1.2-1.mga5 (unaffected) | — |
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