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open-vm-tools: Local Privilege Escalation

Description

### Background open-vm-tools contains tools for VMware guests. ### Description A pipe accessible to unprivileged users in the VMWare guest does not sufficiently sanitize input. ### Impact An unprivileged guest user could achieve root privileges within the guest. ### Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. ### Resolution All open-vm-tools users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/open-vm-tools-12.1.0"


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
Gentoo any app-emulation/open-vm-tools 12.1.0

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