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Rocky Linux: CVE-2022-31676: open-vm-tools (Multiple Advisories)

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Rocky Linux: CVE-2022-31676: open-vm-tools (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/23/2022
Created
03/13/2024
Added
03/12/2024
Modified
03/25/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • rocky-upgrade-open-vm-tools
  • rocky-upgrade-open-vm-tools-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-open-vm-tools-debugsource
  • rocky-upgrade-open-vm-tools-desktop
  • rocky-upgrade-open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-open-vm-tools-sdmp
  • rocky-upgrade-open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-open-vm-tools-test
  • rocky-upgrade-open-vm-tools-test-debuginfo

References

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