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.
describes (2)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2023-34059US | high7.0 | — | ||
open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the
/dev/uinput fil… | ||||
| CVE-2023-34058US | high7.5 | — | ||
VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
remediations (20)
- Fixedopen-vm-tools-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-debuginfo-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-debuginfo-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-debugsource-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-debugsource-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-desktop-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-desktop-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-salt-minion-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-salt-minion-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-sdmp-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-sdmp-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1.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-2023:7265
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