Debian DSA-5543-1 : open-vm-tools - security update

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5543 advisory. Two security issues have been discovered in the Open VMware Tools, which could result in privilege escalation. For the oldstable distribution bullseye, these...

FreeBSD : open-vm-tools -- Multiple vulnerabilities (d2505ec7-78ea-11ee-9131-6f01853956d5)

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the d2505ec7-78ea-11ee-9131-6f01853956d5 advisory. - VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that ha...

Privilege Escalation

open-vm-tools is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. The vulnerability is a file descriptor hijack within the vmware-user-suid-wrapper allowing a malicious attacker to simulate user inputs...

SUSE SLES15: libvmtools-devel / libvmtools0 / open-vm-tools / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:4230-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4230-1 advisory. - CVE-2023-34058: Fixed a SAML token signature bypass issue bsc1216432. - CVE-2023-34059: Fixed a privilege escalation issue throug...

AZL-31733 CVE-2023-34059 affecting package open-vm-tools for versions less than 11.3.0-3

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 file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs...

CVE-2023-34059

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 file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-34059

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 file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs...

Design/Logic Flaw

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 file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs...

CVE-2023-34059

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 file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs...

CVE-2023-34059

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 file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-34059

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 file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs...

Updated glibc packages fix a security vulnerability

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when...

Oracle Linux 8 : glibc (ELSA-2023-5455)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-5455 advisory. - CVE-2023-4527: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaa mode. - CVE-2023-4813: potential use-after-free in gaihinet RHEL-2435. Tenable has...

SUSE CVE-2023-4911

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code...

Oracle Linux 9 : glibc (ELSA-2023-12854)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-12854 advisory. 2.34-60.0.3 - CVE-2023-4911: tunables: Terminate immediately if end of input is reached Reviewed by: Jose E. Marchesi Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Rocky Linux 8 : glibc (RLSA-2023:5455)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2023:5455 advisory. - A flaw was found in glibc. When the getaddrinfo function is called with the AFUNSPEC address family and the system is configured with no-aaaa mode via...

glibc: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code...

Oracle Linux 9 : glibc (ELSA-2023-12850)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-12850 advisory. 2.34-60.0.3 - CVE-2023-4911: tunables: Terminate immediately if end of input is reached Reviewed by: Jose E. Marchesi Tenable has extracted the preceding...

GLSA-202310-03 : glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202310-03 glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities - An issue was discovered in the GNU C Library glibc 2.36. When the syslog function is passed a crafted input string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the heap and...

CVE-2023-4911

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBCTUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code...