Issued at: 2025-10-08
Updated at: 2025-10-08
Synopsis
Important: open-vm-tools security update
Description
The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines.
Security Fix(es):
* open-vm-tools: Local privilege escalation in open-vm-tools (CVE-2025-41244)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Affected products
Rocky Linux 10.0 aarch64
Rocky Linux 10.0 x86_64
Fixes
2397752
CVEs
CVE-2025-41244
Affected packages
Rocky Linux 10.0 aarch64 - AppStream
open-vm-tools-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.aarch64.rpm
open-vm-tools-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.src.rpm
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.aarch64.rpm
open-vm-tools-debugsource-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.aarch64.rpm
open-vm-tools-desktop-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.aarch64.rpm
open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.aarch64.rpm
open-vm-tools-test-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.aarch64.rpm
open-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.aarch64.rpm
Rocky Linux 10.0 x86_64 - AppStream
open-vm-tools-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.src.rpm
open-vm-tools-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-debugsource-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-desktop-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-salt-minion-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-sdmp-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-test-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-0:12.5.0-1.el10_0.1.x86_64.rpm