Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS2023-2025-982
Advisory Released Date: 2025-06-02
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-06-02
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
VMware Tools contains an insecure file handling vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on a guest VM may tamper the local files to trigger insecure file operations within that VM. (CVE-2025-22247)
Affected Packages:
open-vm-tools
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update open-vm-tools --releasever 2023.7.20250527 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-test-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-devel-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.aarch64
src:
open-vm-tools-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.src
x86_64:
open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-test-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-test-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-devel-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64