Security update for open-vm-tools
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)
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.
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Submitted by
Ken Johnson (kenljohnson)
Fixed bugs
bnc#1013496
open-vmtools showing wrong guest os in vsphere (ESXi 6.0)
bnc#1007600
L3-Question: VUL-0: CVE-2015-5191: open-vm-tools: Will open-vm-tools be updated to 10.0.9 or higher on SLES12 SP1 to address CVE-2015-5191?
bnc#1006796
system hangs during VMware snapshot
bnc#1011057
Please update open-vm-tools to 10.1.0
bnc#971031
vmtoolsd restart via ssh freezes on exit
bnc#994598
open-vm-tools should add udev rule to avoid boot problems
bnc#1024200
[TRACKERBUG] FATE#322214: [ECO] Include latest stable open-vm-tools 10.1.0 release
