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SUSE: 2022:2962-1 Important: Open-Vm-Tools Privilege Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey September 1, 2022
Dist Suse Esm H88
Address the severe risk of privilege elevation by applying SUSE's crucial open-vm-tools update, ensuring your system's integrity and safeguarding against potential vulnerabilities.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues: - CVE-2022-31676: Fixed an issue that could allow unprivileged users inside a virtual machine to escalate privileges (bsc#1202657). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-BCL-2022-2962=1 Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL (x86_64): libvmtools0-10.3.10-3.34.1 libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.3.10-3.34.1 open-vm-tools-10.3.10-3.34.1 open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.3.10-3.34.1 open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.3.10-3.34.1 open-vm-tools-desktop-10.3.10-3.34.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation SUSE important update open-vm-tools

References

#1202657

Cross- CVE-2022-31676

CVSS scores:

CVE-2022-31676 (NVD) : 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2022-31676 (SUSE): 7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31676.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1202657

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:2962-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation SUSE important update open-vm-tools

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