An open-vm-tools security update has been released for Fedora 35.

SECURITY: Fedora 35 Update: open-vm-tools-12.1.0-1.fc35

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-1c9c0bacaf
2022-09-17 01:54:03.902068
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Name : open-vm-tools
Product : Fedora 35
Version : 12.1.0
Release : 1.fc35
URL :   https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
Summary : Open Virtual Machine Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware
Description :
The open-vm-tools project is an open source implementation of VMware Tools. It
is a suite of open source virtualization utilities and drivers to improve the
functionality, user experience and administration of VMware virtual machines.
This package contains only the core user-space programs and libraries of
open-vm-tools.

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Update Information:

Package new upstream version open-vm-tools-12.1.0-20219665. ---- Security fix
for CVE-2022-31676
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Sep 8 2022 John Wolfe - 12.1.0-1
- Package new upstream version open-vm-tools-12.1.0-20219665.
. fix for CVE-2022-31676 - a local privilege escalation vulnerability.
. address a number of Coverity reported issues.
- Remove patch 1205-Properly-check-authorization-on-incoming-guestOps-re.patch
as no longer needed.
* Sun Sep 4 2022 John Wolfe - 12.0.5-3
- Add patch 1205-Properly-check-authorization-on-incoming-guestOps-re.patch
to fix CVE-2022-31676 in open-vm-tools 12.0.5 tracked in PR 120976.
- Correct build requirements - replace systemd-rpm-macros with systemd_udev.
* Fri Jul 22 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 12.0.5-2
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2118714 - CVE-2022-31676 open-vm-tools: local root privilege escalation in the virtual machine
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118714
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-1c9c0bacaf' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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