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openSUSE: Critical Local Privilege Escalation Patch for open-vm-tools

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important security advisory for open-vm-tools on openSUSE addressing privilege escalation issues.
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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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 15.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-3435=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-3435=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-3435=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-3435=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-3435=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-3435=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP3-LTSS-2025-3435=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-ESPOS-2025-3435=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15...

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Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 x86_64 i586)

* open-vm-tools-desktop-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* libvmtools0-debuginfo-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* open-vm-tools-sdmp-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* open-vm-tools-containerinfo-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* open-vm-tools-debugsource-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* libvmtools0-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* open-vm-tools-containerinfo-debuginfo-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* open-vm-tools-debuginfo-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* libvmtools-devel-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* open-vm-tools-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64)

* open-vm-tools-salt-minion-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (x86_64)

* libvmtools0-debuginfo-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* open-vm-tools-debugsource-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* open-vm-tools-debuginfo-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* libvmtools0-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* open-vm-tools-13.0.0-150300.64.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 (x86_64)

* libvmtools0-debuginfo-13.0.0-150300.64.1

*...

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References

* bsc#1250373

## References:

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

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

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
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Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03435-1
Release Date: 2025-09-30T14:10:01Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 * SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 LTSS * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 * SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 LTS * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 LTS * SUSE Manager Server 4.3 * SUSE Manager Server 4.3 LTS

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