MGASA-2022-0342 - Updated open-vm-tools packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 21 Sep 2022 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0342.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 8 CVE: CVE-2022-31676 A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine (CVE-2022-31676). References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30770 - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/ - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-31676 SRPMS: - 8/core/open-vm-tools-11.2.5-1.1.mga8
Mageia 2022-0342: open-vm-tools security update
A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine (CVE-2022-31676)
Summary
A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can
escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine (CVE-2022-31676).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30770
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-31676
Resolution
MGASA-2022-0342 - Updated open-vm-tools packages fix security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 8/core/open-vm-tools-11.2.5-1.1.mga8
Severity
Publication date: 21 Sep 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0342.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-31676
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