open-vm-tools 12.3.5 has been released

[John Wolfe]

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://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h5hf-5wcj-6hmf>. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products, see https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0024.html.

  * This release resolves CVE-2023-34059<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q6p8-m5f4-4vmp> which only affects open-vm-tools. For more information on this vulnerability, please see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

  * 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://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.5/ReleaseNotes.md#resolved-issues> section of the Release Notes.

For complete details, see: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-12.3.5

Release Notes are available at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.5/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.3.5 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.3.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

Please rebase open-vm-tools to release 12.3.5 on supported Ubuntu releases as appropriate.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2:12.3.5-1