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<h1>Recommended update for open-vm-tools</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-RU-2024:2665-1</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>moderate</td>
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<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">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>
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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 issues:</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</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">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-2665=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-SP5-2024-2665=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-2665=1</code>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>libvmtools0-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>libvmtools0-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>libvmtools0-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.4.5-4.74.2</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.4.5-4.74.2</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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