open-vm-tools bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for open-vm-tools. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linu...

open-vm-tools bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for open-vm-tools. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linu...

open-vm-tools: Local Privilege Escalation

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 thi...

AlmaLinux 8 : open-vm-tools (ALSA-2022:6357)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2022:6357 advisory. - VMware Tools 12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest O...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2022-0342)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

MGASA-2022-0342 Updated open-vm-tools packages fix security vulnerability

A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine CVE-2022-31676...

Updated open-vm-tools packages fix security vulnerability

A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine CVE-2022-31676...

Fedora: Security Advisory for open-vm-tools (FEDORA-2022-1c9c0bacaf)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: open-vm-tools-12.1.0-1.fc35

The open-vm-tools project is an open source implementation of VMware Tools. It is a suite of open source virtualization utilities and drivers to improve the functionality, user experience and administration of VMware virtual machines. This package contains only the core user-space programs and...

Fedora: Security Advisory for open-vm-tools (FEDORA-2022-1b8d3b2845)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

CentOS: Security Advisory for open-vm-tools (CESA-2022:6381)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

CentOS 7 : open-vm-tools (RHSA-2022:6381)

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6381 advisory. - VMware Tools 12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Gues...

Fedora: Security Advisory for open-vm-tools (FEDORA-2022-cd23eac6f4)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: open-vm-tools-12.0.5-3.fc36

The open-vm-tools project is an open source implementation of VMware Tools. It is a suite of open source virtualization utilities and drivers to improve the functionality, user experience and administration of VMware virtual machines. This package contains only the core user-space programs and...

Scientific Linux Security Update : open-vm-tools on SL7.x x86_64 (2022:6381)

The remote Scientific Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SLSA-2022:6381-1 advisory. - open-vm-tools: local root privilege escalation in the virtual machine CVE-2022-31676 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead reli...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: open-vm-tools security update

An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

open-vm-tools: local root privilege escalation in the virtual machine

A flaw was found in open-vm-tools. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the guest operating system can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine...

RHEL 8 : open-vm-tools (RHSA-2022:6354)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6354 advisory. The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization...

RHEL 7 : open-vm-tools (RHSA-2022:6381)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6381 advisory. The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization...

RHEL 8 : open-vm-tools (RHSA-2022:6355)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6355 advisory. The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization...