Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-34059): Open VM Tools vulnerabilities
4
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
10/27/2023
11/01/2023
11/01/2023
12/07/2023
Description
open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-open-vm-tools
- ubuntu-upgrade-open-vm-tools-desktop
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