Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2114
Advisory Release Date: 2023-07-05 22:01 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-07-19 22:27 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
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. (CVE-2022-31676)
Affected Packages:
open-vm-tools
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update open-vm-tools to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
open-vm-tools-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-desktop-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-devel-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-test-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
src:
open-vm-tools-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.src
x86_64:
open-vm-tools-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-desktop-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-devel-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-test-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.1.0-4.amzn2.0.2.x86_64