SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2017:0701-1)
| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 36 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VMware Tools Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | 1 Aug 201700:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2015-5191 | 28 Jul 201721:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2015-5191 | 28 Jul 201721:00 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2015-5191 | 28 Jul 201721:00 | – | debiancve | |
| EUVD-2015-5192 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| K84583382: VMware Tools vulnerability CVE-2015-5191 | 21 Feb 202319:45 | – | f5 | |
| F5 Networks BIG-IP : VMware Tools vulnerability (K84583382) | 23 Feb 202200:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 26 : open-vm-tools (2017-08ec8b6dc4) | 27 Jul 201700:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 25 : open-vm-tools (2017-4b4154d6f6) | 4 Aug 201700:00 | – | nessus | |
| openSUSE Security Update : open-vm-tools (openSUSE-2017-276) | 21 Feb 201700:00 | – | nessus |
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| Source | Link |
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| bugzilla | www.bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi |
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| bugzilla | www.bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi |
| bugzilla | www.bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi |
| bugzilla | www.bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi |
| bugzilla | www.bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi |
| bugzilla | www.bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi |
| bugzilla | www.bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi |
| bugzilla | www.bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi |
| bugzilla | www.bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi |
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bugs and security issues :
- New vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility
- GTK3 support
- Common Agent Framework (CAF)
- Guest authentication with xmlsec1
- Sub-command to push updated network information to the
host on demand
- Fix for quiesced snapshot failure leaving guest file
system quiesced (bsc#1006796)
- Fix for CVE-2015-5191 (bsc#1007600)
- Report SLES for SAP 12 guest OS as SLES 12 (bsc#1013496)
- Add udev rule to increase VMware virtual disk timeout
values (bsc#994598)
- Fix vmtoolsd init script to run vmtoolsd in background
(bsc#971031)
- Fix copy-n-paste and drag-n-drop regressions
(bsc#978424)
- Add new vmblock-fuse.service
- Fix a suspend with systemd issue (bsc#913727)
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SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2017-384=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch
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include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE");
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if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLED12|SLES12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLED12 / SLES12", "SUSE " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu);
if (cpu >!< "x86_64") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "x86_64", cpu);
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if (os_ver == "SLED12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(1)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLED12 SP1", os_ver + " SP" + sp);
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if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
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if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
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if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"open-vm-tools-desktop-10.1.0-5.3.1")) flag++;
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if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_note(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "open-vm-tools");
}
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