Debian DSA-5215-1 : open-vm-tools - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 164384

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5215 advisory.

- VMware Tools (12.0.0, 11.x.y and 10.x.y) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine. (CVE-2022-31676)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the open-vm-tools packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164384

File Name: debian_DSA-5215.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/24/2022

Updated: 12/6/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-31676

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:open-vm-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:open-vm-tools-desktop, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:open-vm-tools-sdmp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:open-vm-tools-dev

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-31676

IAVB: 2022-B-0029-S

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