{"id":29718,"date":"2022-08-25T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/files\/168178\/USN-5578-2.txt"},"modified":"2022-08-30T14:51:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:21:23","slug":"ubuntu-security-notice-usn-5578-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/ubuntu-security-notice-usn-5578-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5578-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">=========================================================================<br \/>\nUbuntu Security Notice USN-5578-2<br \/>\nAugust 24, 2022<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">open-vm-tools vulnerability<br \/>\n=========================================================================<br \/>\nA security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; Ubuntu 16.04 ESM<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Summary:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">open-vm-tools could be made to run programs as an administrator.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Software Description:<br \/>\n&#8211; open-vm-tools: Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Details:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">USN-5578-1 fixed a vulnerability in Open VM Tools. This update provides<br \/>\nthe corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Original advisory details:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled certain requests.<br \/>\nAn attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to gain root<br \/>\nprivileges inside the virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Update instructions:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following<br \/>\npackage versions:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:<br \/>\nopen-vm-tools 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">References:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-5578-2<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-5578-1<br \/>\nCVE-2022-31676<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>========================================================================= Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5578-2 August 24, 2022 open-vm-tools vulnerability ========================================================================= A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: &#8211; Ubuntu 16.04 ESM Summary: open-vm-tools could be made to run programs as an administrator. Software Description: &#8211; open-vm-tools: Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware Details: USN-5578-1 fixed a vulnerability &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}