GLSA 202210-27: open-vm-tools: Local Privilege Escalation

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Severity:	high
Title:	open-vm-tools: Local Privilege Escalation
Date:	10/31/2022
Bugs:	#866227
ID:	202210-27

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been discovered in open-vm-tools which could allow for local privilege escalation.

Background

open-vm-tools contains tools for VMware guests.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-emulation/open-vm-tools	< 12.1.0	>= 12.1.0	All supported architectures

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 this time.

Resolution

All open-vm-tools users should upgrade to the latest version:

          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/open-vm-tools-12.1.0"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202210-27.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.