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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202210-27">
    <title>open-vm-tools: Local Privilege Escalation</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in open-vm-tools which could allow for local privilege escalation.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">open-vm-tools</product>
    <announced>2022-10-31</announced>
    <revised count="1">2022-10-31</revised>
    <bug>866227</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="app-emulation/open-vm-tools" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">12.1.0</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">12.1.0</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>open-vm-tools contains tools for VMware guests.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>A pipe accessible to unprivileged users in the VMWare guest does not sufficiently sanitize input.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="high">
        <p>An unprivileged guest user could achieve root privileges within the guest.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All open-vm-tools users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/open-vm-tools-12.1.0"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31676">CVE-2022-31676</uri>
        <uri>VMSA-2022-0024.1</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2022-10-31T01:23:04.771992Z">ajak</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2022-10-31T01:23:04.777600Z">ajak</metadata>
</glsa>