This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions of Fedora EPEL. For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field. For more information see: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as the relevant top-level CVE bugs. Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the fedpkg commit message. epel-6 tracking bug for open-vm-tools: see blocks bug list for full details of the security issue(s). This bug is never intended to be made public, please put any public notes in the blocked bugs. [bug automatically created by: add-tracking-bugs]
Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as this tracking bug. This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated when new packages are pushed to stable. ===== # bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required) type=security # testing, stable request=testing # Bug numbers: 1234,9876 bugs=1165899,1165902 # Description of your update notes=Security fix for CVE-2014-4199 # Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds autokarma=True stable_karma=3 unstable_karma=-3 # Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable close_bugs=True # Suggest that users restart after update suggest_reboot=False ====== Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi update submission link instead: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/new/?type_=security&bugs=1165899,1165902
Adding parent bug 1165900 (for CVE-2014-4200). Please use this new fedpkg update template when submitting the update: ===== # bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required) type=security # testing, stable request=testing # Bug numbers: 1234,9876 bugs=1165902,1165899,1165900 # Description of your update notes=Security fix for CVE-2014-4199, CVE-2014-4200 # Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds autokarma=True stable_karma=3 unstable_karma=-3 # Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable close_bugs=True # Suggest that users restart after update suggest_reboot=False ====== Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi update submission link instead: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/new/?type_=security&bugs=1165902,1165899,1165900
open-vm-tools version 9.4.6 package contains the fix which has been already updated in the repo.
The upstream fix for CVE-2014-4199 is a hack, if you run vm-support in /tmp you'll hit the symlink issue with the resulting tarball, also the directory name can be guessed easily. https://github.com/bzed/pkg-open-vm-tools/blob/master/debian/patches/debian/fix-CVE-2014-4199 fixes that one really.