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openSUSE Leap 15.6: Important Local Escalation Patch for open-vm-tools

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2025
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An important update for open-vm-tools fixes a local privilege escalation issue, enhancing system security on openSUSE.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-41244: local privilege escalation via the Service Discovery Plugin

(bsc#1250373).

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Topics Covered

security advisory important local escalation service discovery OpenSUSE open-vm-tools

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-3434=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-3434=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-3434=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-3434=1

* Containers Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Containers-15-SP6-2025-3434=1

* Containers Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Containers-15-SP7-2025-3434=1

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP6-2025-3434=1

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP7-2025-3434=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 x86_64 i586)

* libvmtools0-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* libvmtools0-debuginfo-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* open-vm-tools-desktop-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* open-vm-tools-containerinfo-debuginfo-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* open-vm-tools-debugsource-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* libvmtools-devel-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* open-vm-tools-containerinfo-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* open-vm-tools-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* open-vm-tools-sdmp-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* open-vm-tools-debuginfo-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)

* open-vm-tools-salt-minion-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 x86_64)

* libvmtools0-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* libvmtools0-debuginfo-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* open-vm-tools-debugsource-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* open-vm-tools-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

* open-vm-tools-sdmp-13.0.0-150600.3.18.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1250373

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-41244.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250373

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03434-1
Release Date: 2025-09-30T14:08:27Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 * Containers Module 15-SP6 * Containers Module 15-SP7 * Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6 * Desktop Applications Module 15-SP7 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

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Topics Covered

security advisory important local escalation service discovery OpenSUSE open-vm-tools

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