Oracle Corporation a corrective release of the virtualization system VirtualBox 6.1.2, which notes . At the same time, corrective releases of VirtualBox 6.0.16 and 5.2.36 have also been released.
Key changes in release 6.1.2:
- Resolved , of which 6 have a high degree of severity (CVSS Score 8.2 and 7.5). Details are not disclosed, but judging by the CVSS level, some issues allow code execution on the host system from the guest environment;
- Support for Linux kernel 5.5 has been added on the host side (not yet supported on guest systems);
- In guest additions, the handling of multi-monitor configurations and workspace resizing has been improved when using the VMSVGA driver;
- Performance of virtio-scsi has been enhanced;
- Support for (read-only mode) compressed clusters in QCOW2 images has been added;
- A problem causing performance degradation of guest systems running Windows XP on hosts with AMD processors has been resolved;
- Correct reporting of CPUID IBRS/IBPB support has been established, resolving the issue with the NetBSD 9.0 RC1 installer crash;
- Issues with updating the status information of the virtual machine have been resolved in the GUI;
- The option for '2D video acceleration' has been removed from the screen settings if it is not supported by the selected graphics adapter;
- A problem with audio input handling when VRDE is enabled has been resolved;
- A crash in the HDA audio emulation code in multi-speaker configurations has been fixed;
- An issue with using encrypted disks with snapshots has been corrected;
- The utility vbox-img.exe has been returned to the Windows installer;
- Support for retrying the directory rename operation in case of failure during the installation or removal of the extension pack in Windows has been implemented, which usually occurs due to antivirus activity;
- Hardware decoding of 2D video is enabled in Windows when using the VBoxSVGA driver with active 3D mode.
Source: opennet.ru
