Low: open-vm-tools

Issue Overview:

A fully compromised ESXi host can force VMware Tools to fail to authenticate host-to-guest operations, impacting the confidentiality and integrity of the guest virtual machine. (CVE-2023-20867)

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-12.2.5-1.amzn2.aarch64  
    open-vm-tools-desktop-12.2.5-1.amzn2.aarch64  
    open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.2.5-1.amzn2.aarch64  
    open-vm-tools-devel-12.2.5-1.amzn2.aarch64  
    open-vm-tools-test-12.2.5-1.amzn2.aarch64  
    open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.5-1.amzn2.aarch64  
  
src:  
    open-vm-tools-12.2.5-1.amzn2.src  
  
x86_64:  
    open-vm-tools-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64  
    open-vm-tools-desktop-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64  
    open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64  
    open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64  
    open-vm-tools-devel-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64  
    open-vm-tools-test-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64  
    open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2023-20867

Mitre: CVE-2023-20867