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<h1>Recommended update for open-vm-tools</h1>
<table class="table table-striped table-bordered">
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-RU-2024:2323-1</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=1227181">bsc#1227181</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
<td>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">Basesystem Module 15-SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">Containers Module 15-SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">openSUSE Leap 15.6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6</li>
</ul>
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<p>An update that has one fix can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issue:</p>
<ul>
<li>There are no new features in this open-vm-tools release (bsc#1227181).
This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical
problems, including:<ul>
<li>A Github pull request and associated issue has been handled. Please
see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.</li>
<li>A number of issues flagged by Coverity and ShellCheck have been
addressed.</li>
<li>A vmtoolsd process hang related to nested logging from an RPC Channel
error has been fixed.
For a more complete list of issues resolved in this release, see the
Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.</li>
</ul>
</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">
openSUSE Leap 15.6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-2024-2323=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2024-2323=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
Basesystem Module 15-SP6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2024-2323=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
Containers Module 15-SP6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Containers-15-SP6-2024-2323=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP6-2024-2323=1</code>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 x86_64 i586)
<ul>
<li>open-vm-tools-containerinfo-debuginfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>libvmtools-devel-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-containerinfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>libvmtools0-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 x86_64)
<ul>
<li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>libvmtools0-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>libvmtools-devel-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Containers Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 x86_64)
<ul>
<li>open-vm-tools-containerinfo-debuginfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-containerinfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Desktop Applications Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 x86_64)
<ul>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.4.5-150600.3.3.2</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227181">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227181</a>
</li>
</ul>
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