USN-6365-1 fixed a vulnerability in Open VM Tools. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled SAML tokens. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass SAML token signature verification and perform VMware Tools Guest Operations.
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{ "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro", "binaries": [ { "binary_version": "2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm2", "binary_name": "open-vm-tools" }, { "binary_version": "2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm2", "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-dbgsym" }, { "binary_version": "2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm2", "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-desktop" }, { "binary_version": "2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm2", "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-desktop-dbgsym" }, { "binary_version": "2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm2", "binary_name": "open-vm-tools-dev" } ] }