RLSA-2025:17509

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 8 x86_64

Fixes

2397752

CVEs

CVE-2025-41244

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 8 x86_64 - AppStream

open-vm-tools-0:12.3.5-2.el8_10.1.src.rpm open-vm-tools-0:12.3.5-2.el8_10.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-debuginfo-0:12.3.5-2.el8_10.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-debugsource-0:12.3.5-2.el8_10.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-0:12.3.5-2.el8_10.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-0:12.3.5-2.el8_10.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-salt-minion-0:12.3.5-2.el8_10.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-sdmp-0:12.3.5-2.el8_10.1.x86_64.rpm open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-0:12.3.5-2.el8_10.1.x86_64.rpm