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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2022:6381

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: local root privilege escalation in the virtual machine (CVE-2022-31676)

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.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2022-September/086325.html

Affected packages:
open-vm-tools
open-vm-tools-desktop
open-vm-tools-devel
open-vm-tools-test

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6381