Mageia 9: MGASA-2025-0166 critical: open-vm-tools insecure file handling
mageia
May 27, 2025
VMware Tools contains an insecure file handling vulnerability
Summary
VMware Tools contains an insecure file handling vulnerability. A
malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on a guest VM may
tamper the local files to trigger insecure file operations within that
VM. (CVE-2025-22247)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34271
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/2
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YDQBVVMNJB6EXDLSUNBCHZTNRBLXJEFU/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22247
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 9/core/open-vm-tools-12.3.5-2.1.mga9
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Publication date: 27 May 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0166.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2025-22247
Topics Covered
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