Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2017-03-15 14:20
Modified
2017-03-15 14:20
Summary
Security update for open-vm-tools

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for open-vm-tools
Description of the patch
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)
Patchnames
SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-382,SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-382
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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}


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