An open-vm-tools security update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELSA-2022-6357 Important: Oracle Linux 8 open-vm-tools security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2022-6357

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-6357.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
open-vm-tools-11.3.5-1.0.1.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-desktop-11.3.5-1.0.1.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-sdmp-11.3.5-1.0.1.el8_6.1.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/open-vm-tools-11.3.5-1.0.1.el8_6.1.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2022-31676



Description of changes:

[11.3.5-1.0.1.el8_6.1]
- Fix spaces in vmware udev rule for scsi devices [Orabug: 24461968]
- Fix vmware udev rule in 99-vmware-scsi-timeout.rules file. [Orabug: 22815019]
- Increase timeout for scsi devices on VMWare guests by adding a udev rule. [Orabug: 21819156]

[11.3.5-1.el8_6.1]
- ovt-Properly-check-authorization-on-incoming-guestOps-re.patch [bz#2119283]
- Resolves: bz#2119283
(CVE-2022-31676 open-vm-tools: local root privilege escalation in the virtual machine [rhel-8.6.0.z])

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