Oracle Company corrective release of the virtualization system VirtualBox 6.1.2, which noted . Corrective releases of VirtualBox 6.0.16 and 5.2.36 were also released at the same time.
Main changes in release 6.1.2:
- Eliminated , of which 6 have a high degree of danger (CVSS Score 8.2 and 7.5). Details are not given, but judging by the level of CVSS, some issues allow the guest system environment to execute code on the host side;
- Added support for the Linux 5.5 kernel on the host side (not yet supported in guest systems);
- Improved handling of multi-monitor configurations and resizing of the workspace in Guest Additions when using the VMSVGA driver;
- Improved performance of virtio-scsi;
- Added support (in read-only mode) for compressed clusters in QCOW2 images;
- Addresses an issue resulting in poor performance in Windows XP guests on AMD processor hosts.
- Fixed correct notification of CPUID IBRS/IBPB support, which allowed to solve the problem with NetBSD 9.0 RC1 installer crash;
- Issues with updating information about the state of the virtual machine have been resolved in the GUI;
- In the screen settings, the display of the "2D video acceleration" option has been removed if it is not supported by the selected graphics adapter;
- Fixed issue with audio input handling when VRDE is enabled;
- Fixed a crash in the HDA audio emulation code in multi-speaker configurations.
- Fixed problem with using encrypted disks with snapshots;
- The vbox-img.exe utility has been returned to the Windows installer;
- When installing or uninstalling a set of extensions, Windows supports retrying a directory rename operation in the event of a failure, usually due to antivirus activity;
- Windows has 2D video hardware decoding enabled when using the VBoxSVGA driver with 3D enabled.
Source: opennet.ru