SUSE-SU-2025:20866-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2025-10-17 12:03 - Updated: 2026-09-20 18:19Summary
Security update for open-vm-tools
Severity
Important
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for open-vm-tools
Description of the patch: This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues:
Update to open-vm-tools 13.0.5 based on build 24915695. (bsc#1250692):
Please refer to the Release Notes at:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-13.0.5/ReleaseNotes.md.
The granular changes that have gone into the open-vm-tools 13.0.5 release
are in the ChangeLog at:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-13.0.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog.
There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 13.0.5 release. This is
primarily a maintenance release that addresses a security issue.
This release resolves and includes the patch for CVE-2025-41244. For more
information on this vulnerability and its impact on Broadcom products,
see VMSA-2025-0015.
A minor enhancement has been made for Guest OS Customization. The
DeployPkg plugin has been updated to use "systemctl reboot", if available.
For a more complete list of issues addressed in this release, see the
What's New and Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.
Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.1-307
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
7.8 (High)
Affected products
Recommended
2 products
| Product | Identifier | Version | Remediation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.1:libvmtools0-0:13.0.5-slfo.1.1_1.1.x86_64 | — |
Vendor Fix
|
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| Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.1:open-vm-tools-0:13.0.5-slfo.1.1_1.1.x86_64 | — |
Vendor Fix
|
Threats
Impact
important
References
10 references
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