SUSE SLES15: libvmtools-devel / libvmtools0 / open-vm-tools / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:2961-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164545

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2961-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-31676: Fixed an issue that could allow unprivileged users inside a virtual machine to escalate privileges (bsc#1202657).

Non-security fixes:

- Update to 11.0.5 (build 15389592) (bsc#1165955) DNS server is reported incorrectly in GuestInfo as '127.0.0.53', when the OS uses systemd-resolved. This issue is fixed in this release.
Added Application Discover (appInfo) plugin.
The plugin collects the information about running applications inside the guest and publishes the information to a guest variable.

- GCC-10 compiler failure (bsc#1160408) The update will solve a GNU compiler Collection GCC10 failure with -fno-common.

- Rectify a log spew in vmsvc logging (bsc#1162435, bsc#1162119) When a LSI Logic Parallel SCSI controller sits in PCI bus 0 (SCSI controller 0), the Linux disk device enumeration does not provide a 'label' file with the controller name. This results in messages like 'GuestInfoGetDiskDevice: Missing disk device name; VMDK mapping unavailable for '/var/log', fsName:
'/dev/sda2' repeatedly appearing in the vmsvc logging. The update converts what previously was a warning message to a debug message and thus avoids the log spew.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libvmtools-devel, libvmtools0, open-vm-tools and / or open-vm-tools-desktop packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164545

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2961-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/1/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-31676

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvmtools-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-desktop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvmtools0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-31676

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2961-1

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