Red Hat Security Advisory: open-vm-tools security update
An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2022-31676US | high7.8 | — | ||
VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate pr… | ||||
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remediations (18)
- Fixedopen-vm-tools-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6357 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6357 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-debuginfo-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6357 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-debugsource-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6357 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-desktop-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6357 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6357 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-sdmp-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6357 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6357 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6357 - Workaroundopen-vm-tools-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
- Workaroundopen-vm-tools-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
- Workaroundopen-vm-tools-debuginfo-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
- Workaroundopen-vm-tools-debugsource-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
- Workaroundopen-vm-tools-desktop-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
- Workaroundopen-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
- Workaroundopen-vm-tools-sdmp-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
- Workaroundopen-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
- Workaroundopen-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-0:11.3.5-1.el8_6.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
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