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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2022-6357-01 Critical Open-Vm-Tools

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Calendar Grey September 6, 2022
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An essential security update for open-vm-tools pertaining to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 has been rolled out. Explore the changes implemented and their potential ramifications.
An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines.
Security Fix(es):
* open-vm-tools: local root privilege escalation in the virtual machine (CVE-2022-31676)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical local exploit important red hat enterprise linux open-vm-tools

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31676 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: open-vm-tools-11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.src.rpm
x86_64: open-vm-tools-11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-debuginfo-11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-debugsource-11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-sdmp-11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:6357-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6357
Issue date: 2022-09-06

Topic

An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical local exploit important red hat enterprise linux open-vm-tools

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2118714 - CVE-2022-31676 open-vm-tools: local root privilege escalation in the virtual machine

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