Fedora 26: FEDORA-2017-08ec8b6dc4 Critical: Open-VM-Tools Race Condition

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

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