Backport open-vm-tools 12.3.5 for jammy, lunar and mantic
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bryce Harrington | ||
Jammy |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bryce Harrington | ||
Lunar |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Bryce Harrington | ||
Mantic |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Bryce Harrington | ||
Noble |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Bryce Harrington |
Bug Description
[Impact]
Without SRUing the newer version users get issues running on more
recent hypervisors - this is a case of [1] in the SRU policy since
without it (virtual) hardware will break. In the past a lack of
updated open-vm-tools versions was found fatal and therefore we
agreed to regularly backport those to the latest LTS.
[Test Case]
* TL;DR is "use open-vm-tools" but that can be quite complex for the
variety of potential Host versions.
* VMWare itself took ownership of verifying these backports and will test
the same bits from a PPA and the SRU for the official "ack"
* Users are invited to test upgrading their own different setups.
* In general we recommend giving this some extra time in -proposed to see
if anybody uncovers issues.
[Regression Potential]
This is introducing a new version and thus might contain new issues of
any scope. Any reported bug would thus need to be viewed as a
potential regression. This is being shipped in the latest -devel so any
bug reported against that release should be included as a concern for
all releases targeted in this SRU.
[Other Info]
* This is a practice for quite a while (more than five years now), see:
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[1]: https:/
open-vm-tools 12.3.5 was released on Oct. 26, 2023
There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.3.5 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical problems, including:
* This release resolves CVE-2023-34058<https:/
* This release resolves CVE-2023-34059<https:/
* A GitHub issue has been handled. Please see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.
* For issues resolved in this release, see the Resolved Issues <https:/
For complete details, see: https:/
Release Notes are available at https:/
The granular changes that have gone into the 12.3.5 release are in the ChangeLog at https:/
Please rebase open-vm-tools to release 12.3.5 on supported Ubuntu releases as appropriate.
CVE References
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-23.10 |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Bryce Harrington (bryce) |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Focal): | |
assignee: | nobody → Bryce Harrington (bryce) |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Jammy): | |
assignee: | nobody → Bryce Harrington (bryce) |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Lunar): | |
assignee: | nobody → Bryce Harrington (bryce) |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Focal): | |
status: | New → Won't Fix |
no longer affects: | open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Focal) |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Jammy): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Lunar): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
description: | updated |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Jammy): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Lunar): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Mantic): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
description: | updated |
tags: |
added: verification-done verification-done-jammy verification-done-mantic removed: verification-needed verification-needed-jammy verification-needed-mantic |
Noble has 12.3.5 now, would that be even better one (according to the patchlevel bump of .0 to .5) to backport? :)