Security update for open-vm-tools
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2023:3795-1 |
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| Rating: | important |
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An update that solves one vulnerability, contains one feature and has one security fix can now be installed.
Description:
This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues:
Update to 12.3.0 (build 22234872) (bsc#1214850)
- There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.3.0 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical problems, including:
- This release integrates CVE-2023-20900 without the need for a patch. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products, see https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0019.html.
- A tools.conf configuration setting is available to temporaily direct Linux quiesced snaphots to restore pre open-vm-tools 12.2.0 behavior of ignoring file systems already frozen.
- Building of the VMware Guest Authentication Service (VGAuth) using "xml-security-c" and "xerces-c" is being deprecated.
- A number of Coverity reported issues have been addressed.
- A number of GitHub issues and pull requests have been handled. Please see the Resolves Issues section of the Release Notes.
- For issues resolved in this release, see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.
- For complete details, see: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-12.3.0
- Release Notes are available at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.0/ReleaseNotes.md
- The granular changes that have gone into the 12.3.0 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.0/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog
- Fix (bsc#1205927) - hv_vmbus module is loaded unnecessarily in VMware guests
- jsc#PED-1344 - reinable building containerinfo plugin for SLES 15 SP4.
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2023-3795=1 -
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2023-3795=1 -
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2023-3795=1
Package List:
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (x86_64)
- open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-12.3.0-4.59.1
- libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1
- libvmtools0-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1
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SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (x86_64)
- open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-12.3.0-4.59.1
- libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1
- libvmtools0-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (x86_64)
- open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-12.3.0-4.59.1
- libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1
- libvmtools0-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.3.0-4.59.1
- open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1