SUSE SLES12: libvmtools0 / open-vm-tools / open-vm-tools-desktop / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3795-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 181907

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3795-1 advisory.

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 181907

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3795-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/27/2023

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-20900

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvmtools0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-desktop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-sdmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-vm-tools-salt-minion

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-20900

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3795-1

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