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Date:      Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:39:45 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 271986] emulators/open-vm-tools: update to 12.2.5
Message-ID:  <bug-271986-7788@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 271986
           Summary: emulators/open-vm-tools: update to 12.2.5
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: garga@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: jwolfe@vmware.com
          Assignee: garga@FreeBSD.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(garga@FreeBSD.org)

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/Ch=
angeLog

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

Since FreeBSD typically does not build the vgauth service, the current
open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-nox11 are not affected by CVE-2023-20867.=20
However you may want to update to 12.2.5 for FreeBSD customers that may ena=
ble
the vgauth service when building from /usr/ports.

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