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An open-vm-tools security update has been released for Fedora Linux 39.



[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: open-vm-tools-12.3.0-3.fc39


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-86a50ffc72
2023-11-08 01:25:18.668446
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Name : open-vm-tools
Product : Fedora 39
Version : 12.3.0
Release : 3.fc39
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:

Security fixes for CVE-2023-34058 and CVE-2023-34059
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Oct 30 2023 John Wolfe [jwolfe@vmware.com] - 12.3.0-3
- Address CVE-2023-34058 - BZ 2246963 - SAML token signature token bypass.
- Address CVE-2023-34059 - BZ 2246962 - vmware-user-suid-wrapper
file descriptor hijack vulnerability
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2246080 - CVE-2023-34058 open-vm-tools: SAML token signature bypass
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246080
[ 2 ] Bug #2246096 - CVE-2023-34059 open-vm-tools: file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246096
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-86a50ffc72' 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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