SUSE-SU-2017:0705-1

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    SUSE-SU-2017:0705-1

    Published: 15 Mar 2017Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-5191
    Aliases:
    CVE-2015-5191

    Summary: Security update for open-vm-tools

    Details: This update for open-vm-tools to 10.1.0 stable brings features, fixes bugs and security issues: - New vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility - GTK3 support - Common Agent Framework (CAF) - Guest authentication with xmlsec1 - Sub-command to push updated network information to the host on demand - Fix for quiesced snapshot failure leaving guest file system quiesced (bsc#1006796) - Fix for CVE-2015-5191 (bsc#1007600) - Report SLES for SAP 12 guest OS as SLES 12 (bsc#1013496) - Add udev rule to increase VMware virtual disk timeout values (bsc#994598) - Fix vmtoolsd init script to run vmtoolsd in background (bsc#971031) - Fix copy-n-paste and drag-n-drop regressions (bsc#978424) - Add new vmblock-fuse.service - Fix a suspend with systemd issue (bsc#913727) - ESXi Serviceability - GuestInfo Enhancements - Compatibility with all supported versions of VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation 12.0 and VMware Fusion 8.0.

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20170705-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1006796, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1007600, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1011057, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1013496, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1024202, https://bugzilla.suse.com/913727, https://bugzilla.suse.com/938593, https://bugzilla.suse.com/941384, https://bugzilla.suse.com/944615, https://bugzilla.suse.com/952645, https://bugzilla.suse.com/971031, https://bugzilla.suse.com/978424, https://bugzilla.suse.com/985110, https://bugzilla.suse.com/994598, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5191

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: open-vm-tools

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -10.1.0-7.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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