USN-5578-1 fixed a vulnerability in Open VM Tools. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled certain requests.
An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to gain root
privileges inside the virtual machine.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | open-vm-tools | < 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | open-vm-tools | < 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | open-vm-tools-dbgsym | < 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | open-vm-tools-desktop | < 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | open-vm-tools-desktop-dbgsym | < 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | open-vm-tools-dev | < 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1 | UNKNOWN |