Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2250
Advisory Release Date: 2023-09-13 23:44 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-20 19:40 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor with man-in-the-middle (MITM) network positioning between vCenter server and the virtual machine may be able to bypass SAML token signature verification, to perform VMware Tools Guest Operations. (CVE-2023-20900)
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-12.3.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-devel-12.3.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-test-12.3.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
src:
open-vm-tools-12.3.0-1.amzn2.src
x86_64:
open-vm-tools-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-devel-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-test-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64