USN-6463-1 — open-vm-tools vulnerabilities

Summary

It was discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled SAML tokens. A
remote attacker Guest Operations privileges could possibly use this issue
to escalate privileges. (CVE-2023-34058)

Matthias Gerstner discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled file
descriptors when dropping privileges. A local attacker could possibly use
this issue to hijack /dev/uinput and simulate user inputs. (CVE-2023-34059)

Fixed packages 2

Release	Package	Fixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS	open-vm-tools	2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.7
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS	open-vm-tools	2:12.1.5-3~ubuntu0.22.04.4

Vulnerabilities 2

High 7.4

CVE-2023-34059

open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with n…

open-vm-tools open-vm-tools open-vm-tools Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

Oct 27, 2023
High 7.1

CVE-2023-34058

VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operat…

open-vm-tools open-vm-tools open-vm-tools Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

Oct 27, 2023

References

report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-34058
report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-34059

open-vm-tools vulnerabilities

Summary

Fixed packages 2

Vulnerabilities 2

open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with n…

VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operat…

References