Critical Alert: Local Escalation in open-vm-tools on Scientific Linux 7

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 SL7 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.x8 [More...]

Synopsis:          Important: open-vm-tools security update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2022:6381-1
Issue Date:        2022-09-08
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2022-31676
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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
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SL7
  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
    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

- Scientific Linux Development Team