SUSE-SU-2023:3795-1

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SUSE-SU-2023:3795-1

Summary: Security update for open-vm-tools

Details: 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.

References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2023/suse-su-20233795-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1205927, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1214850, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20900