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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2023:7279

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.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2024-January/099184.html

Affected packages:
open-vm-tools
open-vm-tools-desktop
open-vm-tools-devel
open-vm-tools-test

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7279