Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2018:3104 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2018-10-30
Updated:
2018-10-30

RHEA-2018:3104 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Synopsis

open-vm-tools bug fix update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

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Topic

An update for open-vm-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of open-vm-tools are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1536222 - [ESXi][RHEL7.5]Freezing filesystems on a VM that has bind-mounted filesystems fails with ENXIO
  • BZ - 1550009 - [ESXi][RHEL7.4]Lots of NIC Limit messages by open-vm-tools under /var/log/vmware-vmsvc.log
  • BZ - 1601559 - [ESXi][RHEL7.6] Include new open-vm-tools patches for cloud-init to work with python-2

CVEs

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
open-vm-tools-10.2.5-3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 6f6efcdf5f857fb84730fd918fdfb1810f99e854b0558359b5d57606eae1c833
x86_64
open-vm-tools-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b05772b5a56441babb8fe0a68d744d11a5905ebbca0094e33f21f26c22696139
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 85d8be69cfad494ccd9eabad906425b569a66acfc81edafdcb8819ec0668d76a
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 85d8be69cfad494ccd9eabad906425b569a66acfc81edafdcb8819ec0668d76a
open-vm-tools-desktop-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: db182e7e3bce047ee0dd4bd2ad7a239af09fda6a59faa1690bae549b12a8a146
open-vm-tools-devel-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3394299e1714c76d7de278d285b76f513e02d657159291fea50d6f0f5769170e
open-vm-tools-test-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ec8c73179bc1106f235bd67708d6b3662ff09c3a50ad2437aeddde2f5754a2ad

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7

SRPM
open-vm-tools-10.2.5-3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 6f6efcdf5f857fb84730fd918fdfb1810f99e854b0558359b5d57606eae1c833
x86_64
open-vm-tools-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b05772b5a56441babb8fe0a68d744d11a5905ebbca0094e33f21f26c22696139
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 85d8be69cfad494ccd9eabad906425b569a66acfc81edafdcb8819ec0668d76a
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 85d8be69cfad494ccd9eabad906425b569a66acfc81edafdcb8819ec0668d76a
open-vm-tools-desktop-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: db182e7e3bce047ee0dd4bd2ad7a239af09fda6a59faa1690bae549b12a8a146
open-vm-tools-devel-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3394299e1714c76d7de278d285b76f513e02d657159291fea50d6f0f5769170e
open-vm-tools-test-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ec8c73179bc1106f235bd67708d6b3662ff09c3a50ad2437aeddde2f5754a2ad

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
open-vm-tools-10.2.5-3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 6f6efcdf5f857fb84730fd918fdfb1810f99e854b0558359b5d57606eae1c833
x86_64
open-vm-tools-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b05772b5a56441babb8fe0a68d744d11a5905ebbca0094e33f21f26c22696139
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 85d8be69cfad494ccd9eabad906425b569a66acfc81edafdcb8819ec0668d76a
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 85d8be69cfad494ccd9eabad906425b569a66acfc81edafdcb8819ec0668d76a
open-vm-tools-desktop-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: db182e7e3bce047ee0dd4bd2ad7a239af09fda6a59faa1690bae549b12a8a146
open-vm-tools-devel-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3394299e1714c76d7de278d285b76f513e02d657159291fea50d6f0f5769170e
open-vm-tools-test-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ec8c73179bc1106f235bd67708d6b3662ff09c3a50ad2437aeddde2f5754a2ad

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
open-vm-tools-10.2.5-3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 6f6efcdf5f857fb84730fd918fdfb1810f99e854b0558359b5d57606eae1c833
x86_64
open-vm-tools-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b05772b5a56441babb8fe0a68d744d11a5905ebbca0094e33f21f26c22696139
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 85d8be69cfad494ccd9eabad906425b569a66acfc81edafdcb8819ec0668d76a
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 85d8be69cfad494ccd9eabad906425b569a66acfc81edafdcb8819ec0668d76a
open-vm-tools-desktop-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: db182e7e3bce047ee0dd4bd2ad7a239af09fda6a59faa1690bae549b12a8a146
open-vm-tools-devel-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3394299e1714c76d7de278d285b76f513e02d657159291fea50d6f0f5769170e
open-vm-tools-test-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ec8c73179bc1106f235bd67708d6b3662ff09c3a50ad2437aeddde2f5754a2ad

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7

SRPM
open-vm-tools-10.2.5-3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 6f6efcdf5f857fb84730fd918fdfb1810f99e854b0558359b5d57606eae1c833
x86_64
open-vm-tools-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b05772b5a56441babb8fe0a68d744d11a5905ebbca0094e33f21f26c22696139
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 85d8be69cfad494ccd9eabad906425b569a66acfc81edafdcb8819ec0668d76a
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 85d8be69cfad494ccd9eabad906425b569a66acfc81edafdcb8819ec0668d76a
open-vm-tools-desktop-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: db182e7e3bce047ee0dd4bd2ad7a239af09fda6a59faa1690bae549b12a8a146
open-vm-tools-devel-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3394299e1714c76d7de278d285b76f513e02d657159291fea50d6f0f5769170e
open-vm-tools-test-10.2.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ec8c73179bc1106f235bd67708d6b3662ff09c3a50ad2437aeddde2f5754a2ad

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