This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues: Update to 12.3.0 * 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 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 - hv_vmbus module is loaded unnecessarily in VMware guests * jsc#PED-1344 - reinable building containerinfo plugin for SLES 15 SP4.