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<h1>Security update for open-vm-tools</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-SU-2023:3795-1</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>important</td>
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<th>References:</th>
<td>
<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205927">#1205927</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214850">#1214850</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-1344">PED-1344</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<th>
Cross-References:
</th>
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<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20900.html">CVE-2023-20900</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<th>CVSS scores:</th>
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<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-20900</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
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<span class="cvss-score">7.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H</span>
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<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2023-20900</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">7.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H</span>
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</ul>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
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<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5</li>
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<p>An update that solves one vulnerability, contains one feature and has one security fix can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues:</p>
<p>Update to 12.3.0 (build 22234872) (bsc#1214850)</p>
<ul>
<li>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:</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Building of the VMware Guest Authentication Service (VGAuth) using
"xml-security-c" and "xerces-c" is being deprecated.</li>
<li>A number of Coverity reported issues have been addressed.</li>
<li>A number of GitHub issues and pull requests have been handled.
Please see the Resolves Issues section of the Release Notes.</li>
<li>For issues resolved in this release, see the Resolved Issues section
of the Release Notes.</li>
<li>For complete details, see:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-12.3.0</li>
<li>Release Notes are available at
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.0/ReleaseNotes.md</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>Fix (bsc#1205927) - hv_vmbus module is loaded unnecessarily in VMware guests</li>
<li>jsc#PED-1344 - reinable building containerinfo plugin for SLES 15 SP4.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE 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">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2023-3795=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2023-3795=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2023-3795=1</code>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>libvmtools0-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>libvmtools0-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>libvmtools0-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-4.59.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20900.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20900.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205927">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205927</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214850">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214850</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-1344">https://jira.suse.com/browse/PED-1344</a>
</li>
</ul>
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