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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2023-3948 Low: open-vm-tools Auth Bypass

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has published a minor security patch for open-vm-tools impacting RHEL 9, which resolves an authentication circumvention vulnerability.
An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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: authentication bypass vulnerability in the vgauth module (CVE-2023-20867)
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux authentication bypass low impact open-vm-tools

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20867 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: open-vm-tools-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.src.rpm
aarch64: open-vm-tools-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm open-vm-tools-test-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm open-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.aarch64.rpm
x86_64: open-vm-tools-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-test-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-12.1.5-1.el9_2.1.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-2023:3948-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3948
Issue date: 2023-06-29

Topic

An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux9.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux authentication bypass low impact open-vm-tools

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2213087 - CVE-2023-20867 open-vm-tools: authentication bypass vulnerability in the vgauth module

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