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High ELSA-2022-6381 1 CVE

Important: open-vm-tools security update (Oracle Linux 7)

Published Sep 7, 2022 · Updated Sep 7, 2022

Summary

[11.0.5-3.0.1]
- fix spaces in vmware udev rule for scsi devices
[Orabug: 24461968]
- Fix vmware udev rule in 99-vmware-scsi-timeout.rules file.
[Orabug: 22815019]
- Increase timeout for scsi devices on VMWare guests by adding a udev rule.
- Created a new file 99-vmware-scsi-timeout.rules
- Modified spec file to install this new file.
[Orabug: 21819156]

[11.0.5-3.el7_9.4]
- ovt-Properly-check-authorization-on-incoming-guestOps-re.patch [bz#2119310]
- Resolves: bz#2119310
(CVE-2022-31676 open-vm-tools: local root privilege escalation in the virtual machine [rhel-7.9.z])

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 open-vm-tools 0:11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.4
Oracle Linux · 7 open-vm-tools-desktop 0:11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.4
Oracle Linux · 7 open-vm-tools-devel 0:11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.4
Oracle Linux · 7 open-vm-tools-test 0:11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.4

Vulnerabilities 1