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Fedora 25: Update For Open-Vm-Tools Addressing Race Condition

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Calendar Grey August 2, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Resolution for /tmp race pitfalls in open-vm-tools for Fedora 25 to bolster security and reliability. Keep informed!
Fix /tmp race conditions in libDeployPkg (CVE-2015-5191).

Summary

The open-vm-tools project is an open source implementation of VMware Tools. It

is a suite of open source virtualization utilities and drivers to improve the

functionality, user experience and administration of VMware virtual machines.

This package contains only the core user-space programs and libraries of

open-vm-tools.

Fix /tmp race conditions in libDeployPkg (CVE-2015-5191).

[ 1 ] Bug #1253689 - CVE-2015-5191 open-vm-tools: /tmp race conditions in the libDeployPkg component

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253689

su -c 'dnf upgrade open-vm-tools' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 10.1.5
Release: 5.fc25
Summary: Open Virtual Machine Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware

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