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Debian 10 Buster DLA-3646-1 Critical: Open-Vm-Tools Threats

debian lts
Calendar Grey November 5, 2023
Dist Debian Esm H88
Ubuntu LTS Notice USN-1234-1 releases qemu updating security flaws CVE-2023-12345 and CVE-2023-12346.
Brief introduction CVE-2023-34058

Summary

CVE-2023-34058

A file descriptor hijack vulnerability was found in
the vmware-user-suid-wrapper command.
A malicious actor with non-root privileges might have been able
to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor allowing
them to simulate user inputs.

CVE-2023-34059

A SAML Token Signature Bypass vulnerability was found.
A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges
in a target virtual machine might have been able to
elevate their privileges if that target
virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias.

For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version
2:10.3.10-1+deb10u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your open-vm-tools packages.

For the detailed security status of open-vm-tools please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/open-vm-tools

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Package: open-vm-tools
Version: 2:10.3.10-1+deb10u6
CVE ID: CVE-2023-34058 CVE-2023-34059
Debian Bug: 1054666

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