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<patchinfo incident="30720">
  <issue tracker="bnc" id="1214850">open-vm-tools 12.3.0 has been released - please rebase</issue>
  <issue tracker="bnc" id="1205927">hv_vmbus module is loaded unnecessarily in VMware guests</issue>
  <issue tracker="cve" id="2023-20900"/>
  <issue tracker="jsc" id="PED-1344"/>
  <packager>kallan</packager>
  <rating>important</rating>
  <category>security</category>
  <summary>Securitys update for open-vm-tools</summary>
  <description>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.
</description>
</patchinfo>

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