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High RLSA-2023:7265 2 CVEs

Important: open-vm-tools security update

Published Nov 28, 2023 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines.

Security Fix(es):

* open-vm-tools: SAML token signature bypass (CVE-2023-34058)

* open-vm-tools: file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper (CVE-2023-34059)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 open-vm-tools 0:12.2.5-3.el8_9.1

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246080
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246096