Package: open-vm-tools Version: 2:12.3.0
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/2033687/+index> Also affects project<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/2033687/+choose-affected-product> (?)<https://bugs.launchpad.net/+help-bugs/also-affects-project-help.html> Also affects distribution/package<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/2033687/+distrotask> Edit<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/2033687/+edit> Bug Description open-vm-tools 12.3.0 was released on Aug. 31, 2023. 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 resolves CVE-2023-20900. 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 Please rebase open-vm-tools to release 12.3.0 on supported Debian releases as appropriate. Note: 12.3.0 includes changes to better detect and configure the usage of OSS packages needed to build the containerInfo plugin. VMware has successfully built 12.3.0 on Ubuntu 23.04 without the use of the "grpc_1.51" patch in your open-vm-tools-package.
