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Rocky Linux: RLSA-2025:17428 open-vm-tools security update Security Advisories Updates

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Calendar Grey October 18, 2025
Rockylinux Esm H88
An important update for open-vm-tools on Rocky Linux addresses local privilege escalation issues affecting systems.
Important: open-vm-tools security update

Summary

An update is available for open-vm-tools. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list


RPMs

open-vm-tools-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.aarch64.rpm

open-vm-tools-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.src.rpm

open-vm-tools-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.aarch64.rpm

open-vm-tools-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-debugsource-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.aarch64.rpm

open-vm-tools-debugsource-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-desktop-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.aarch64.rpm

open-vm-tools-desktop-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.aarch64.rpm

open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-salt-minion-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-sdmp-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-test-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.aarch64.rpm

open-vm-tools-test-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.aarch64.rpm

open-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2.x86_64.rpm

References

No references

CVES

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-41244

Severity
important

Name: RLSA-2025:17428
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 9

Fixes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2397752


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