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SUSE-SU-2017:0705-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2017-03-15 14:21 - Updated: 2026-09-20 12:23

Summary

Security update for open-vm-tools

Severity

Moderate

Notes

Title of the patch: Security update for open-vm-tools

Description of the patch: This update for open-vm-tools to 10.1.0 stable brings features, fixes bugs and security issues: - New vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility - GTK3 support - Common Agent Framework (CAF) - Guest authentication with xmlsec1 - Sub-command to push updated network information to the host on demand - Fix for quiesced snapshot failure leaving guest file system quiesced (bsc#1006796) - Fix for CVE-2015-5191 (bsc#1007600) - Report SLES for SAP 12 guest OS as SLES 12 (bsc#1013496) - Add udev rule to increase VMware virtual disk timeout values (bsc#994598) - Fix vmtoolsd init script to run vmtoolsd in background (bsc#971031) - Fix copy-n-paste and drag-n-drop regressions (bsc#978424) - Add new vmblock-fuse.service - Fix a suspend with systemd issue (bsc#913727) - ESXi Serviceability - GuestInfo Enhancements - Compatibility with all supported versions of VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation 12.0 and VMware Fusion 8.0.

Patchnames: slessp4-open-vm-tools-13024

CVE-2015-5191

6.7 (Medium)


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

Affected products

Recommended 12 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4:libvmtools0-0:10.1.0-7.1.i586	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4:libvmtools0-0:10.1.0-7.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4:open-vm-tools-0:10.1.0-7.1.i586	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4:open-vm-tools-0:10.1.0-7.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4:open-vm-tools-desktop-0:10.1.0-7.1.i586	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4:open-vm-tools-desktop-0:10.1.0-7.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4:libvmtools0-0:10.1.0-7.1.i586	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4:libvmtools0-0:10.1.0-7.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4:open-vm-tools-0:10.1.0-7.1.i586	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4:open-vm-tools-0:10.1.0-7.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4:open-vm-tools-desktop-0:10.1.0-7.1.i586	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4:open-vm-tools-desktop-0:10.1.0-7.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix

Threats

Impact moderate

References

21 references

URL	Category
https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/	external
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/s…	self
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/…	self
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-upd…	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1006796	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1007600	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1011057	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1013496	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1024202	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/913727	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/938593	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/941384	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/944615	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/952645	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/971031	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/978424	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/985110	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/994598	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5191/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5191	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1007600	external

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CVE-2015-5191 (GCVE-0-2015-5191)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-28 21:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:27

Summary

VMware Tools prior to 10.0.9 contains multiple file system races in libDeployPkg, related to the use of hard-coded paths under /tmp. Successful exploitation of this issue may result in a local privilege escalation. CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Local privilege escalation vulnerability

Assigner

vmware CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 64/100 over 228 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100011	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039013	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
VMware	VMware Tools	Affected: VMware Tools prior to 10.0.9

Date Public

2017-07-27 00:00

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