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Fedora 41: FEDORA-2025-a6305306dd critical: open-vm-tools file handling

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The latest open-vm-tools release, version 12.5.2, has been issued to rectify the security vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-22247 in Fedora 41.
Update to version 12.5.2

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:

Update to version 12.5.2. Fixes CVE-2025-22247

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security advisory Fedora insecure handling CVE fix open-vm-tools user-space programs

Change Log

* Fri May 16 2025 Simone Caronni - 12.5.2-1 - Update to 12.5.2 * Thu Mar 20 2025 Richard W.M. Jones - 12.4.0-4 - Bump and rebuild * Fri Jan 17 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 12.4.0-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2294721 - open-vm-tools version 12.4.5 has been released - please rebase https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294721 [ 2 ] Bug #2320094 - open-vm-tools version 12.5.0 has been released - please rebase https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2320094 [ 3 ] Bug #2365723 - CVE-2025-22247 open-vm-tools: Insecure file handling [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2365723

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-a6305306dd' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: open-vm-tools
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 12.5.2
Release: 1.fc41
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 Fedora insecure handling CVE fix open-vm-tools user-space programs

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