open-vm-tools: fix CVE-2025-41244

VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools contain a local privilege
escalation vulnerability. A malicious local actor with non-administrative
privileges having access to a VM with VMware Tools installed and managed
by Aria Operations with SDMP enabled may exploit this vulnerability
to escalate privileges to root on the same VM.

Reference:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41244

Upstream-patch:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/7ed196cf01f8acd09011815a605b6733894b8aab

Signed-off-by: Rajeshkumar Ramasamy <rajeshkumar.ramasamy@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Gyorgy Sarvari <skandigraun@gmail.com>

2 files changed, 125 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools/CVE-2025-41244.patch b/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools/CVE-2025-41244.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ad1ff93365
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools/CVE-2025-41244.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+From 7ed196cf01f8acd09011815a605b6733894b8aab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Kruti Pendharkar <kp025370@broadcom.com>
+Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 01:02:40 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] Address CVE-2025-41244 - Disable (default) the execution of
+ the SDMP get-versions.sh script.
+
+With the Linux SDMP get-versions.sh script disabled, version information
+of installed services will not be made available to VMware Aria
+
+CVE: CVE-2025-41244
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/7ed196cf01f8acd09011815a605b6733894b8aab]
+
+Signed-off-by: Rajeshkumar Ramasamy <rajeshkumar.ramasamy@windriver.com>
+---
+ .../serviceDiscovery/serviceDiscovery.c       | 38 ++++++++++++++++---
+ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/open-vm-tools/services/plugins/serviceDiscovery/serviceDiscovery.c b/open-vm-tools/services/plugins/serviceDiscovery/serviceDiscovery.c
+index de8901741..329f87e15 100644
+--- a/open-vm-tools/services/plugins/serviceDiscovery/serviceDiscovery.c
++++ b/open-vm-tools/services/plugins/serviceDiscovery/serviceDiscovery.c
+@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+ /*********************************************************
+- * Copyright (C) 2020 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.
++ * Copyright (c) 2020-2025 Broadcom. All Rights Reserved.
++ * The term "Broadcom" refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
+  *
+  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+  * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
+@@ -107,6 +108,12 @@ VM_EMBED_VERSION(VMTOOLSD_VERSION_STRING);
+  */
+ #define SERVICE_DISCOVERY_RPC_WAIT_TIME 100
+
++/*
++ * Defines the configuration to enable/disable version obtaining logic
++ */
++#define CONFNAME_SERVICEDISCOVERY_VERSION_CHECK "version-check-enabled"
++#define SERVICE_DISCOVERY_CONF_DEFAULT_VERSION_CHECK FALSE
++
+ /*
+  * Maximum number of keys that can be deleted by one operation
+  */
+@@ -845,24 +852,27 @@ ServiceDiscoveryServerShutdown(gpointer src,
+  *
+  * Construct final paths of the scripts that will be used for execution.
+  *
+- *****************************************************************************
++ * @param[in] versionCheckEnabled  TRUE to include the SERVICE_DISCOVERY_KEY_VERSIONS
++ *                                 entry; FALSE to skip it (derived from config).
++ * *****************************************************************************
+  */
+
+ static void
+-ConstructScriptPaths(void)
++ConstructScriptPaths(Bool versionCheckEnabled)
+ {
+    int i;
+    gchar *scriptInstallDir;
+ #if !defined(OPEN_VM_TOOLS)
+    gchar *toolsInstallDir;
+ #endif
++   int insertIndex = 0;
+
+    if (gFullPaths != NULL) {
+       return;
+    }
+
+    gFullPaths = g_array_sized_new(FALSE, TRUE, sizeof(KeyNameValue),
+-                                  ARRAYSIZE(gKeyScripts));
++                                  ARRAYSIZE(gKeyScripts) - (versionCheckEnabled ? 0u : 1u));
+
+ #if defined(OPEN_VM_TOOLS)
+    scriptInstallDir = Util_SafeStrdup(VMTOOLS_SERVICE_DISCOVERY_SCRIPTS);
+@@ -874,6 +884,15 @@ ConstructScriptPaths(void)
+ #endif
+
+    for (i = 0; i < ARRAYSIZE(gKeyScripts); ++i) {
++      /*
++       * Skip adding if:
++       * 1. Version check is disabled, AND
++       * 2. The keyName matches SERVICE_DISCOVERY_KEY_VERSIONS
++       */
++      if (!versionCheckEnabled &&
++         g_strcmp0(gKeyScripts[i].keyName, SERVICE_DISCOVERY_KEY_VERSIONS) == 0) {
++         continue;
++      }
+       KeyNameValue tmp;
+       tmp.keyName = g_strdup_printf("%s", gKeyScripts[i].keyName);
+ #if defined(_WIN32)
+@@ -883,7 +902,8 @@ ConstructScriptPaths(void)
+       tmp.val = g_strdup_printf("%s%s%s", scriptInstallDir, DIRSEPS,
+                                 gKeyScripts[i].val);
+ #endif
+-      g_array_insert_val(gFullPaths, i, tmp);
++      g_array_insert_val(gFullPaths, insertIndex, tmp);
++      insertIndex++;
+    }
+
+    g_free(scriptInstallDir);
+@@ -951,14 +971,20 @@ ToolsOnLoad(ToolsAppCtx *ctx)
+          }
+       };
+       gboolean disabled;
++      Bool versionCheckEnabled;
+
+       regData.regs = VMTools_WrapArray(regs,
+                                        sizeof *regs,
+                                        ARRAYSIZE(regs));
++      versionCheckEnabled = VMTools_ConfigGetBoolean(
++         ctx->config,
++         CONFGROUPNAME_SERVICEDISCOVERY,
++         CONFNAME_SERVICEDISCOVERY_VERSION_CHECK,
++         SERVICE_DISCOVERY_CONF_DEFAULT_VERSION_CHECK);
+       /*
+        * Append scripts absolute paths based on installation dirs.
+        */
+-      ConstructScriptPaths();
++      ConstructScriptPaths(versionCheckEnabled);
+
+       disabled =
+          VMTools_ConfigGetBoolean(ctx->config,
+--
+2.40.0
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_11.3.5.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_11.3.5.bb
index b58b3ddb90..0e671b6557 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_11.3.5.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_11.3.5.bb
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools.git;protocol=https;branch=maste
            file://CVE-2023-34058.patch;patchdir=.. \
            file://CVE-2023-34059.patch;patchdir=.. \
            file://CVE-2025-22247.patch;patchdir=.. \
+           file://CVE-2025-41244.patch;patchdir=.. \
            "
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "stable-(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"