open-vm-tools: CVE-2023-20900

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open-vm-tools: CVE-2023-20900

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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: open-vm-tools: CVE-2023-20900

Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 22:05:07 +0200

Source: open-vm-tools
Version: 2:12.2.5-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for open-vm-tools.

CVE-2023-20900[0]:
| VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A
| malicious actor with man-in-the-middle (MITM) network positioning
| between vCenter server and the virtual machine may be able to bypass
| SAML token signature verification, to perform VMware Tools Guest
| Operations.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-20900
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-20900
[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/31/1
[2] https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/74b6d0d9000eda1a2c8f31c40c725fb0b8520b16

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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