Summary
Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-31676: 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.
Fixed packages 7
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux · 2 | open-vm-tools | 0:12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | open-vm-tools-debuginfo | 0:12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | open-vm-tools-desktop | 0:12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | open-vm-tools-devel | 0:12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | open-vm-tools-salt-minion | 0:12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | open-vm-tools-sdmp | 0:12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | open-vm-tools-test | 0:12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Unscored —
VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with lo…
References
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web
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-31676.html