-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2022-1b8d3b2845 2022-09-14 00:18:15.239534 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : open-vm-tools Product : Fedora 37 Version : 12.1.0 Release : 1.fc37 URL : https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools Summary : Open Virtual Machine Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware Description : 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Package new upstream version open-vm-tools-12.1.0-20219665. ---- Security fix for CVE-2022-31676 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Sep 8 2022 John Wolfe- 12.1.0-1 - Package new upstream version open-vm-tools-12.1.0-20219665. . fix for CVE-2022-31676 - a local privilege escalation vulnerability. . address a number of Coverity reported issues. - Remove patch 1205-Properly-check-authorization-on-incoming-guestOps-re.patch as no longer needed. * 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-1b8d3b2845' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label 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/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue