Source: open-vm-tools Version: 2:12.0.5-2 Severity: grave Tags: security upstream fixed-upstream Justification: user security hole X-Debbugs-Cc: car...@debian.org, Debian Security Team <t...@security.debian.org>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for open-vm-tools. CVE-2022-31676[0]: | 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. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-31676 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-31676 [1] https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html [2] https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/70a74758bfe0042c27f15ce590fb21a2bc54d745 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
