USN-5578-2

It was discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to gain root privileges inside the virtual machine.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / open-vm-tools

Package

Name: open-vm-tools
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/open-vm-tools@2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1

Affected versions

2:9.*

2:9.10.2-2822639-1ubuntu3

2:10.*

2:10.0.0-3000743-3ubuntu1

2:10.0.7-3227872-2ubuntu1

2:10.0.7-3227872-5ubuntu1~16.04.1

2:10.0.7-3227872-5ubuntu1~16.04.2

2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-tools"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-desktop"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-dev"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

{
    "cves_map": {
        "cves": [
            {
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "type": "CVSS_V3",
                        "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "CVSS_V3",
                        "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "Ubuntu",
                        "score": "medium"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2022-31676"
            }
        ],
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS"
    }
}