openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for virtualbox ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2024:0134-1 Rating: important References: #1211941 #1217824 #1220524 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.5 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has three recommended fixes can now be installed. Description: This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues: - Have the KMP package supplement the kernel-flavor plus virtualbox-guest-tools: -guest tools requires the kmp anyway, and this allows libsolv to give some hints on 'what kmp' to prefer on a system. - Version bump to VirtualBox 7.0.18 (released May 03 2024 by Oracle): Networking: Fixed an issue which caused host system crash when VM was using bridged or host-only network adapter (bug #22045) Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes to prevent UBSAN warnings (bug #21877) Fixes boo#1211941 Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when time stamps were displayed incorrectly within mounted shared folder (bug #22047) Permanent fix for boo#1220524. File fix_shared_folder_time.patch is deleted. Files fixes_for_python.patch and handle_gsoap_208103.patch are deleted. VirtualBox 7.0.16 (released April 16 2024) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: Fixed a guru meditation executing nested-guests using the KVM hypervisor in the guest on Intel hosts (bug #21805) VMM: Fixed Linux VM crash on some recent AMD models USB: Fixed issue when EHCI controller was mishandling short packets (bug #20726) Audio: Introduced general improvements VBoxManage and vboximg-mount: Updated usage information and documentation (bugs #21895, #21992 and #21993) Guest Control: Fixed starting Windows guest processes in the correct Windows session (7.0 regression) Linux Host: Fixed issue when VBox.sh was deleting wrong VBoxSVC IPC socket when VM was started using sudo (bug #20928) Linux Host: Fixed kernel modules build failure when using GCC 13.2 Linux Host and Guest: Added fixes related to UBSAN warnings discovered on recent Linux distributions (bug #21877) Linux Host and Guest: Added possibility to prevent kernel module from automatic loading during system boot by adding mod_name.disabled=1 into kernel command line Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for kernel 6.9 (bug #22033). File kernel-6.9.patch is deleted. Linux Host and Guest: Fixed mk_pte warning introduced in kernel 6.6 (bug #21898) Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.8. File kernel-6.8.patch is deleted. Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics area - Provide a temporary fix to the problem of wrong timestamp for files in a shared folder since kernel 6.6. File "fix_shared_folder_time.patch" is added. This change fixes boo#1220524. - Setting 0660 as permissions of /dev/vboxusb directory itself was preventing access to this directory by any non-root user, even if member of vboxusers. This results in VBox UI failing to enable USB passthrough. Fix issue by removing all the workarounds for /dev/vboxusb/* as they should no longer be required. Fixes boo#1222408. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 15.5: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2024-134=1 Package List: - openSUSE Leap 15.5 (x86_64): python3-virtualbox-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 python3-virtualbox-debuginfo-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-debuginfo-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-debugsource-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-devel-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-guest-tools-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-guest-tools-debuginfo-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-kmp-debugsource-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-kmp-default-7.0.18_k5.14.21_150500.55.59-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-kmp-default-debuginfo-7.0.18_k5.14.21_150500.55.59-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-qt-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-qt-debuginfo-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-vnc-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-websrv-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-websrv-debuginfo-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 - openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch): virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-guest-source-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 virtualbox-host-source-7.0.18-lp155.2.24.1 References: https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211941 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1217824 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1220524