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SUSE: 2023:4227-1 Important: Privilege Escalation in Open-VM-Tools

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2023
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has issued a security patch for key vulnerabilities found in open-vm-tools, assigning it a CVSS severity rating of 7.5 due to the critical nature of the fixes.
* bsc#1216432 * bsc#1216433 Cross-References: * CVE-2023-34058

Summary

## This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues: * CVE-2023-34058: Fixed a SAML token signature bypass issue (bsc#1216432). * CVE-2023-34059: Fixed a privilege escalation issue through vmware-user-suid- wrapper (bsc#1216433). ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * openSUSE Leap 15.3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-2023-4227=1 * openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-Micro-5.3-2023-4227=1 * openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4 zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-Micro-5.4-2023-4227=1 * openSUSE Leap 15.4 zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-4227=1 * openSUSE Leap 15.5 zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-4227=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update privilege escalation SUSE important fix open-vm-tools SUSE Micro

References

* bsc#1216432

* bsc#1216433

Cross-

* CVE-2023-34058

* CVE-2023-34059

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2023-34058 ( SUSE ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2023-34058 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2023-34059 ( NVD ): 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

* Basesystem Module 15-SP4

* Basesystem Module 15-SP5

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP4

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP5

* openSUSE Leap 15.3

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

* openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3

* openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:4227-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update privilege escalation SUSE important fix open-vm-tools SUSE Micro

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