Fedora 38: open-vm-tools 2023-08e2bb6815
Summary
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 libraries of
open-vm-tools.
Update Information:
Security fixes for CVE-2023-34058 and CVE-2023-34059
Change Log
* Mon Oct 30 2023 John Wolfe
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2246080 - CVE-2023-34058 open-vm-tools: SAML token signature bypass
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246080
[ 2 ] Bug #2246096 - CVE-2023-34059 open-vm-tools: file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246096
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-08e2bb6815' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html