Package: open-vm-tools Version: 2:10.2.0-3 Hi, I'll start with a try to map all related bugs as it is confusing enough already.
I had reported [DEB-1] in the past which was based on [UBU-1], but then realized there was [DEB-2]. So we closed [DEB-1] and continued in [DEB-1]. The TL;DR there as well as in [UBU-1] looking forward was that there is no issue with newer systemd's anymore and releases having older systemd might need the fix discussed there. But there also is/was [UBU-2] which is actually a different issue. I myself did mix it up as removing PrivateTmp was a solution there as well :-/ But it is a different issue, the TL;DR on it is that due to PrivateTmp=yes one can no more drive code execution trough VMOMI API that needs tmp. The suggestion came by Olvier Kurth (open-vm-tools upstream) to drop PrivateTmp from the systemd service file. This was also later verified and considered ok by VMware testing people - you can see that part of the history in [UBU-1]. The TL;DR for you is - would you consider dropping PrivateTmp to eliminate this issue from Debian as well? [DEB-1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891071 [DEB-2]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888955 [UBU-1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1750780 [UBU-2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1758428 -- Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd
