Bug 2214857

Summary: open-vm-tools version 12.2.5 has been released - please rebase
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Wolfe <jwolfe>
Component: open-vm-toolsAssignee: John Wolfe <jwolfe>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 39CC: jwolfe, negativo17, ravindrakumar, rjones
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Description John Wolfe 2023-06-13 22:07:25 UTC 
open-vm-tools 12.2.5 was released on June 13, 2023.

There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.2.5 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a single critical problem:

  *  Address CVE-2023-20867 announced in https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0013.html

For complete details, see: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-12.2.5

Release Notes are available at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.2.5/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.2.5 release are in the ChangeLog at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.2.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

Patches applicable to previous open-vm-tools releases are available at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/CVE-2023-20867.patch


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Fedora Release Engineering 2023-08-16 08:11:01 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle.
Changing version to 39.