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Important Local Escalation Advisory ELSA-2025-17509 for Oracle Linux 8

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2025
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Critical update for Oracle Linux 8 addressing local privilege escalation issues in open-vm-tools and important security patches.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

[12.3.5-2.0.1.el8.1] - Fix spaces in vmware udev rule for scsi devices [Orabug: 24461968] - Fix vmware udev rule in 99-vmware-scsi-timeout.rules file. [Orabug: 22815019] - Increase timeout for scsi devices on VMWare guests by adding a udev rule. [Orabug: 21819156] [12.3.5-2.el8.1] - ovt-SDMP-Service-Discovery-Plugin.patch [RHEL-117388] - Resolves: RHEL-117388 ([CISA Major Incident] CVE-2025-41244 open-vm-tools: Local privilege escalation in open-vm-tools [rhel-8.10.z]) [12.3.5-2] - ovt-Restart-tools-on-failure.patch [RHEL-17683] - Resolves: RHEL-17683 (Add Restart=on-failure to vmtoolsd.service [rhel-8])

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SRPMs

http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/open-vm-tools-12.3.5-2.0.1.el8_10.1.src.rpm

x86_64

open-vm-tools-12.3.5-2.0.1.el8_10.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.5-2.0.1.el8_10.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.3.5-2.0.1.el8_10.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.5-2.0.1.el8_10.1.x86_64.rpm

aarch64

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Related CVEs: CVE-2025-41244

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