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CVE-2022-31676

Description

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 OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine. #### Notes Author| Note ---|--- [alexmurray](<https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray>) | Patch in email with Message-ID <BYAPR05MB634348FE28845A7AF442BE28B9649@BYAPR05MB6343.namprd05.prod.outlook.com>


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
ubuntu 20.04 open-vm-tools 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.3
ubuntu 22.04 open-vm-tools 2:11.3.5-1ubuntu4.1
ubuntu upstream open-vm-tools 12.1.0,10.3.25
ubuntu 16.04 open-vm-tools 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1

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