Red Hat alert RHSA-2023:7261-01 (open-vm-tools)

An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2
Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications
Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP
Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the
VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization
components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines.

Security Fix(es):

* open-vm-tools: SAML token signature bypass (CVE-2023-34058)

* open-vm-tools: file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the
vmware-user-suid-wrapper (CVE-2023-34059)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

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