Fedora 36 Security Alert: Critical Local Escalation in Open-VM-Tools

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

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Security fix for CVE-2022-31676

* Sun Sep 4 2022 John Wolfe - 12.0.5-3

- Add patch 1205-Properly-check-authorization-on-incoming-guestOps-re.patch

to fix CVE-2022-31676 in open-vm-tools 12.0.5 tracked in PR 120976.

- Correct build requirements - replace systemd-rpm-macros with systemd_udev.

* Fri Jul 22 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 12.0.5-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #2118714 - CVE-2022-31676 open-vm-tools: local root privilege escalation in the virtual machine

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118714

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-cd23eac6f4' 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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