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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>
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