Mageia: 2022-0342 Critical: Open-Vm-Tools Privilege Escalation
mageia
September 21, 2022
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/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/O4TZF6QRJIDECGMEGBPXJCHZ6YC3VZ6Z/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-31676
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 8/core/open-vm-tools-11.2.5-1.1.mga8
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Publication date: 21 Sep 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0342.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-31676
Topics Covered
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