- Update from version 12.5.0 to 13.0.5
- Update of rootfile not required
- 2 CVE fixes.
- Changelog
13.0.5
Resolved Issues
This release resolves CVE-2025-41244.
For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on
Broadcom
products, see VMSA-2025-0015.
A patch to address CVE-2025-41244 on earlier open-vm-tools
releases is
provided to the Linux community at CVE-2025-41244.patch.
Guest OS Customization updated to use "systemctl reboot".
Currently the "telinit 6" command is used to reboot a Linux VM
following
Guest OS Customization. As the classic Linux init system,
SysVinit, is
deprecated in favor of a newer init system, systemd, the telinit
command may not be available on the base Linux OS.
This change adds support to Guest OS Customization for the
systemd init
system. If the modern init system, systemd, is available, then a
"systemctl reboot" command will be used to trigger reboot.
Otherwise,
the "telinit 6" command will be used assuming the traditional
init
system, SysVinit, is still available.
13.0.0
Resolved Issues
The following github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools pull requests and
issues has
been addressed.
FTBFS: --std=c23 conflicting types between function definition and
declaration MXUserTryAcquireForceFail()
Fixes Issue #750
Pull request #751
Provide tools.conf settings to deactivate one-time and periodic
time
synchronization
The new tools.conf settings disable-all and disable-periodic allow
the
guest OS administrator to deactivate one-time and periodic time
synchronization without rebooting the VM or restarting the
guest OS.
Fixes Issue #302
Fix xmlsec detection when cross-compiling with pkg-config
Pull request #732
After October 25, 2024, with open-vm-tools earlier than 13.0.0, the
salt-minion component is not installed or fails to install in a
guest
operating system through the VMware Component Manager
When you configure the salt-minion component in the present state,
its
last status is set to 102 (not installed) or 103 (installation
failed),
never reaching the installed state 100.
The VM advanced setting with the key
"guestinfo./vmware.components.salt_minion.desiredstate" has a
value
present.
The VM advanced setting with the key
"guestinfo.vmware.components.salt_minion.laststatus" has a
value 102
or 103.
The salt-minion component installs a log file with traces
indicating
failure to access the online salt repository on
https://repo.saltproject.io. The
"vmware-svtminion.sh-install-*.log"
file for the failed install shows a trace similar to:
<date+time> INFO:
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/componentMgr/saltMinion/svtminion.sh:_curl_download
attempting download of file 'repo.json'
<date+time> WARNING:
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/componentMgr/saltMinion/svtminion.sh:_curl_download
failed to download file 'repo.json' from
'https://repo.saltproject.io/salt/py3/onedir/repo.json' on '0' attempt, retcode
'6'
<date+time> WARNING:
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/componentMgr/saltMinion/svtminion.sh:_curl_download
failed to download file 'repo.json' from
'https://repo.saltproject.io/salt/py3/onedir/repo.json' on '1' attempt, retcode
'6'
<date+time> WARNING:
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/componentMgr/saltMinion/svtminion.sh:_curl_download
failed to download file 'repo.json' from
'https://repo.saltproject.io/salt/py3/onedir/repo.json' on '2' attempt, retcode
'6'
<date+time> WARNING:
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/componentMgr/saltMinion/svtminion.sh:_curl_download
failed to download file 'repo.json' from
'https://repo.saltproject.io/salt/py3/onedir/repo.json' on '3' attempt, retcode
'6'
<date+time> WARNING:
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/componentMgr/saltMinion/svtminion.sh:_curl_download
failed to download file 'repo.json' from
'https://repo.saltproject.io/salt/py3/onedir/repo.json' on '4' attempt, retcode
'6'
<date+time> ERROR:
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/componentMgr/saltMinion/svtminion.sh:_curl_download
failed to download file 'repo.json' from
'https://repo.saltproject.io/salt/py3/onedir/repo.json' after '5' attempts
This issue is resolved in this release.
The new versions of the salt-minion integration scripts
supporting the
new Salt Project repository locations are available at:
https://packages.broadcom.com/artifactory/saltproject-generic/onedir/
12.5.4
Product Support Notice
Beginning with the next major release, we will be reducing the
number
of supported localization languages. The three supported
languages
will be:
Japanese
Spanish
French
The following languages will no longer be supported:
Italian
German
Brazilian Portuguese
Traditional Chinese
Korean
Simplified Chinese
Impact:
Users who have been using the deprecated languages will no
longer
receive updates or support in these languages.
All user interfaces, message catalogs, help documentation,
and
customer support will be available only in English or
in the
three supported languages mentioned above.
Resolved Issues
This release resolves CVE-2025-41244.
For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on
Broadcom
products, see VMSA-2025-0015.
A patch to address CVE-2025-41244 on earlier open-vm-tools
releases is
provided to the Linux community at CVE-2025-41244.patch.
12.5.2
Resolved Issues
This release resolves CVE-2025-22247.
For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on
Broadcom
products, see VMSA-2025-0007
A patch to address CVE-2025-22247 on earlier open-vm-tools
releases is
provided to the Linux community at CVE-2025-22247.patch.
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <[email protected]>
---
lfs/openvmtools | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lfs/openvmtools b/lfs/openvmtools
index 52ea91c73..899bedb03 100644
--- a/lfs/openvmtools
+++ b/lfs/openvmtools
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ include Config
SUMMARY = Open Virtual Machine Tools
-VER = stable-12.5.0
+VER = stable-13.0.5
THISAPP = open-vm-tools-$(VER)
DL_FILE = $(THISAPP).tar.gz
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ DIR_APP = $(DIR_SRC)/$(THISAPP)/open-vm-tools
TARGET = $(DIR_INFO)/$(THISAPP)
SUP_ARCH = x86_64
PROG = openvmtools
-PAK_VER = 13
+PAK_VER = 14
DEPS =
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ objects = $(DL_FILE)
$(DL_FILE) = $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
-$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 =
3ad8b820d75fe82f0111a3042a5f26697c56a10b06c77abb55ce84ebd9c8c9867283a7682131633f67ea86a7a85f95f35b3eecc255a3b8de44ee0e242f4da44e
+$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 =
a5f7ba870e8104e8c018b632b446a3c4ad8d90faf09578eba418928be5c53792efc91b84c84de2dec5b23135977e96f5ed10a66fd0047f627d8db6e286b71bb2
install : $(TARGET)
--
2.51.0
