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Red Hat: RHSA-2022:6382-01 Critical: open-vm-tools Remote Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey September 7, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A critical security patch for open-vm-tools on CentOS enhances safeguards against unauthorized local root access.
An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important local escalation 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 Client (v. 7):
Source: open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.src.rpm
x86_64: open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-debuginfo-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: open-vm-tools-debuginfo-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-devel-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-test-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.src.rpm
x86_64: open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-debuginfo-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: open-vm-tools-debuginfo-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-devel-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-test-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.src.rpm
x86_64: open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-debuginfo-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: open-vm-tools-debuginfo-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-devel-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:6381-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6381
Issue date: 2022-09-07

Topic

An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux7.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important local escalation open-vm-tools

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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