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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2023:3950-01 Low: Open-VM-Tools Auth Bypass

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2023
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A security update addressing open-vm-tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been categorized with low severity. This update clarifies the vulnerability related to an authentication bypass.
An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support

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 security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux software fix authentication issue low severity 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 EUS (v.8.6):
Source: open-vm-tools-11.3.5-1.el8_6.2.src.rpm
x86_64: open-vm-tools-11.3.5-1.el8_6.2.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-debuginfo-11.3.5-1.el8_6.2.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-debugsource-11.3.5-1.el8_6.2.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-11.3.5-1.el8_6.2.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-11.3.5-1.el8_6.2.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-sdmp-11.3.5-1.el8_6.2.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-11.3.5-1.el8_6.2.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-11.3.5-1.el8_6.2.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:3950-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3950
Issue date: 2023-06-29

Topic

An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux8.6 Extended Update Support.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 security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux software fix authentication issue low severity open-vm-tools

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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