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    <h1>Security update for open-vm-tools</h1>

    <table class="table table-striped table-bordered">
        <tbody>
        <tr>
            <th>Announcement ID:</th>
            <td>SUSE-SU-2023:2604-1</td>
        </tr>
        
        <tr>
            <th>Rating:</th>
            <td>moderate</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <th>References:</th>
            <td>
                <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210695">#1210695</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212143">#1212143</a>
                        </li>
                    
                </ul>
            </td>
        </tr>
        
            <tr>
                <th>
                    Cross-References:
                </th>
                <td>
                    <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20867.html">CVE-2023-20867</a>
                        </li>
                    
                    </ul>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <th>CVSS scores:</th>
                <td>
                    <ul class="list-group">
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-20867</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        SUSE
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">3.9</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N</span>
                            </li>
                        
                            <li class="list-group-item">
                                <span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-20867</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        NVD
                                    
                                    ):
                                </span>
                                <span class="cvss-score">3.9</span>
                                <span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N</span>
                            </li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </td>
            </tr>
        
        <tr>
            <th>Affected Products:</th>
            <td>
                <ul class="list-group">
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">Basesystem Module 15-SP4</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">Basesystem Module 15-SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">Desktop Applications Module 15-SP4</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">Desktop Applications Module 15-SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">openSUSE Leap 15.4</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">openSUSE Leap 15.5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Manager Server 4.3</li>
                    
                </ul>
            </td>
        </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>

    <p>An update that solves one vulnerability and has one fix can now be installed.</p>

    <h2>Description:</h2>
    <p>This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>CVE-2023-20867: Fixed authentication bypass vulnerability in the vgauth module (bsc#1212143).</li>
</ul>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed build problem with grpc 1.54 (bsc#1210695).</li>
</ul>

    

    <h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
    <p>
        To install this SUSE Moderate update use the SUSE recommended
        installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>

        Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
    </p>
    <ul class="list-group">
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-Micro-5.3-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                openSUSE Leap 15.4
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                openSUSE Leap 15.5
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                Basesystem Module 15-SP4
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP4-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                Basesystem Module 15-SP5
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP5-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                Desktop Applications Module 15-SP4
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP4-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                Desktop Applications Module 15-SP5
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP5-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-RT-15-SP3-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.1-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2023-2604=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
    </ul>

    <h2>Package List:</h2>
    <ul>
        
            
                <li>
                    openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools-devel-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools-devel-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    openSUSE Leap 15.5 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    Basesystem Module 15-SP4 (aarch64 x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools-devel-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    Basesystem Module 15-SP4 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
                <li>
                    Basesystem Module 15-SP5 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools-devel-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    Desktop Applications Module 15-SP4 (aarch64 x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    Desktop Applications Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools-devel-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.2.0-150300.29.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
    </ul>

    
        <h2>References:</h2>
        <ul>
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20867.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20867.html</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210695">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210695</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212143">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212143</a>
                    </li>
                
            
        </ul>
    
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