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VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: VBoxVMM.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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The GNU C library dynamic linker will dlopen arbitrary DSOs during setuid loads
* http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/344

The fix breaks VirtualBox
* http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=35743
* http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7623
* http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=36281

To fix this fix, use chrpath to change the runtime load path of *.so
* http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1447