CVE-2023-34059
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-27 04:53
Modified
2024-08-02 16:01
Severity ?
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs.
References
security@vmware.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/26/1
security@vmware.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/27/1
security@vmware.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G7G77Z76CQPGUF7VHRA6O3UFCMPPR4O2/
security@vmware.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MQUOFQL2SNNNMKROQ3TZQY4HEYMNOIBW/
security@vmware.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WLTKVTRKQW2GD2274H3UOW6XU4E62GSK/
security@vmware.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5543Third Party Advisory
security@vmware.comhttps://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0024.htmlNot Applicable
Impacted products
n/aopen-vm-tools
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