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Rocky Linux: RLSA-2023:3949 open-vm-tools security update

July 8, 2023
An update is available for open-vm-tools. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Summary

An update is available for open-vm-tools. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list


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.

RPMs

open-vm-tools-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.src.rpm

open-vm-tools-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-debuginfo-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-debugsource-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-desktop-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-salt-minion-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-sdmp-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

References

No References

CVEs

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-20867

Severity
Name: RLSA-2023:3949
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 8

Fixes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213087


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