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Fedora 43 open-vm-tools Local Privilege Escalation Advisory 2026-55bb6efd14

fedora
Calendar Grey February 7, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 43 update for open-vm-tools addresses significant local privilege escalation issue and enhances system performance.
Update to 13.0.10.

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 13.0.10.

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

* Mon Feb 2 2026 Simone Caronni - 13.0.10-2 - Upload sources * Mon Feb 2 2026 Simone Caronni - 13.0.10-1 - Update to 13.0.10 * Fri Jan 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 13.0.0-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Nov 4 2025 Tom spot Callaway - 13.0.0-2 - rebuild for new fuse3

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2400582 - [CISA Major Incident] CVE-2025-41244 open-vm-tools: Local privilege escalation in open-vm-tools [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2400582 [ 2 ] Bug #2434885 - open-vm-tools: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f44 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2434885

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-55bb6efd14' 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 43
Version: 13.0.10
Release: 2.fc43
URL: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
Summary: Open Virtual Machine Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware

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