What open-vm-tools package version mitigate vulnerability CVE-2022-31676 and/or VMSA-2022-0024?
Issue
- How to mitigate vulnerability CVE-2022-31676 and/or VMSA-2022-0024 in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.x Virtual Machine (VM) running on VMWare?
- The link VMSA-2022-0024 indicates upgrading the
open-vm-tools
from 12.x.y, 11.x.y and 10.x.y to 12.1.0. Is that correct? - Will upgrading the
open-vm-tools
toopen-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.el7_9.4.src.rpm
mitigate the vulnerability CVE-2022-31676?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x running on top of VMWare virtualization infrastructure.
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