Red Hat Security Advisory: open-vm-tools security update
An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support. 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-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-debuginfo-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-debuginfo-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-debugsource-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-debugsource-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-desktop-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-desktop-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-salt-minion-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-salt-minion-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-sdmp-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-sdmp-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264 - Fixedopen-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-0:12.1.5-2.el8_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8)
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7264
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