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Raising the same question that I posted to bug 2158065. Can someone explain why CVE-2009-1142 is relative to currently supported releases of open-vm-tools currently in use on Red Hat systems? It appears that the offending code only concerned FreeBSD or Solaris guests and the code was removed from the open-vm-tools source in March of 2011. See the last URL in this bug description. As the git commit log is cummulative, accessing that URL https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/76dccec4dd4002cec240e71e0042cdacfae6cca7 (2011.03.28-387002) shows the removal of the code in the history of the current 12.1.5 open-vm-tools (tag stable-12.1.5) That is the only information that can be derived from this bug report. The "depends" or "blocks" bugs are locked; the reason for this bug is not apparent from the information that is available. If there is an issue that Vmware needs to address, we will need some more details.
Closing this BZ as "Not a Bug". As noted in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2158065#c9, the offending code was removed from open-vm-tools in March of 2011.