ALAS2-2023-2139

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-20867  

A fully compromised ESXi host can force VMware Tools to fail to authenticate host-to-guest operations, impacting the confidentiality and integrity of the guest virtual machine. (CVE-2023-20867)

ALAS2-2023-2139


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2139
Advisory Release Date: 2023-07-17 17:39 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-07-19 22:19 Pacific
Severity: Low

Issue Overview:

A fully compromised ESXi host can force VMware Tools to fail to authenticate host-to-guest operations, impacting the confidentiality and integrity of the guest virtual machine. (CVE-2023-20867)


Affected Packages:

open-vm-tools


Issue Correction:
Run yum update open-vm-tools to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    open-vm-tools-12.2.5-1.amzn2.aarch64
    open-vm-tools-desktop-12.2.5-1.amzn2.aarch64
    open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.2.5-1.amzn2.aarch64
    open-vm-tools-devel-12.2.5-1.amzn2.aarch64
    open-vm-tools-test-12.2.5-1.amzn2.aarch64
    open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.5-1.amzn2.aarch64

src:
    open-vm-tools-12.2.5-1.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    open-vm-tools-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64
    open-vm-tools-desktop-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64
    open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64
    open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64
    open-vm-tools-devel-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64
    open-vm-tools-test-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64
    open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.5-1.amzn2.x86_64