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

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        <tbody>
        <tr>
            <th>Announcement ID:</th>
            <td>SUSE-SU-2023:3795-1</td>
        </tr>
        
        <tr>
            <th>Rating:</th>
            <td>important</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <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>
            </td>
        </tr>
        
            <tr>
                <th>
                    Cross-References:
                </th>
                <td>
                    <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20900.html">CVE-2023-20900</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-2023-20900</span>
                                <span class="cvss-source">
                                    (
                                    
                                        SUSE
                                    
                                    ):
                                </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>
                            </li>
                        
                            <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>
                            </li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </td>
            </tr>
        
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            <th>Affected Products:</th>
            <td>
                <ul class="list-group">
                    
                        <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>
                    
                </ul>
            </td>
        </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>

    <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>
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            <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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