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authorV3n3RiX <venerix@koprulu.sector>2022-10-31 03:04:34 +0000
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="202210-27">
+ <title>open-vm-tools: Local Privilege Escalation</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in open-vm-tools which could allow for local privilege escalation.</synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">open-vm-tools</product>
+ <announced>2022-10-31</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2022-10-31</revised>
+ <bug>866227</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-emulation/open-vm-tools" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">12.1.0</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">12.1.0</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>open-vm-tools contains tools for VMware guests.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>A pipe accessible to unprivileged users in the VMWare guest does not sufficiently sanitize input.</p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>An unprivileged guest user could achieve root privileges within the guest.</p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All open-vm-tools users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/open-vm-tools-12.1.0"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31676">CVE-2022-31676</uri>
+ <uri>VMSA-2022-0024.1</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2022-10-31T01:23:04.771992Z">ajak</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2022-10-31T01:23:04.777600Z">ajak</metadata>
+</glsa> \ No newline at end of file