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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-08e2bb6815 Critical: Open-VM-Tools Security Fixes

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Essential updates for open-vm-tools rectify vulnerabilities involving SAML token circumvention and file descriptor manipulation.
Security fixes for CVE-2023-34058 and CVE-2023-34059

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.

Update Information:

Security fixes for CVE-2023-34058 and CVE-2023-34059

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora file descriptor open-vm-tools SAML bypass

Change Log

* Mon Oct 30 2023 John Wolfe - 12.3.0-3 - Address CVE-2023-34058 - BZ 2246963 - SAML token signature token bypass. - Address CVE-2023-34059 - BZ 2246962 - vmware-user-suid-wrapper file descriptor hijack vulnerability * Thu Oct 5 2023 Peter Robinson - 12.3.0-2 - Use fuse3 on new RHEL

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2246080 - CVE-2023-34058 open-vm-tools: SAML token signature bypass https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246080 [ 2 ] Bug #2246096 - CVE-2023-34059 open-vm-tools: file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246096

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-08e2bb6815' 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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Name: open-vm-tools
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 12.3.0
Release: 3.fc38
URL: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
Summary: Open Virtual Machine Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora file descriptor open-vm-tools SAML bypass

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