suse-su-2023:3795-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2023-09-26 16:06
Modified
2023-09-26 16:06
Summary
Security update for open-vm-tools
Notes
Title of the patch
Security update for open-vm-tools
Description of the patch
This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues:
Update to 12.3.0 (build 22234872) (bsc#1214850)
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Building of the VMware Guest Authentication Service (VGAuth) using
'xml-security-c' and 'xerces-c' is being deprecated.
- A number of Coverity reported issues have been addressed.
- A number of GitHub issues and pull requests have been handled.
Please see the Resolves Issues section of the Release Notes.
- For issues resolved in this release, see the Resolved Issues section
of the Release Notes.
- For complete details, see:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-12.3.0
- Release Notes are available at
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.0/ReleaseNotes.md
- 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
- Fix (bsc#1205927) - hv_vmbus module is loaded unnecessarily in VMware guests
- jsc#PED-1344 - reinable building containerinfo plugin for SLES 15 SP4.
Patchnames
SUSE-2023-3795,SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2023-3795
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
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"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5:open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-4.59.1.x86_64"
]
}
],
"threats": [
{
"category": "impact",
"date": "2023-09-26T16:06:28Z",
"details": "important"
}
],
"title": "CVE-2023-20900"
}
]
}
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or seen somewhere by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability is confirmed from an analyst perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: This vulnerability was exploited and seen by the user reporting the sighting.
- Patched: This vulnerability was successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.
- Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expresses doubt about the veracity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.
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