Summary
The remote ESXi is missing one or more security related Updates from VMSA-2012-0001.
Summary
VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party library and ESX Service Console address several security issues.
Relevant releases:
ESXi 4.1 without patch ESXi410-201201401-SG
ESXi 5.0 without patch ESXi500-201203101-SG
ESXi 4.0 without patch ESXi400-201203401-SG
ESX 4.1 without patches ESX410-201201401-SG, ESX410-201201402-SG, ESX410-201201404-SG, ESX410-201201405-SG, ESX410-201201406-SG, ESX410-201201407-SG.
Problem Description
a. ESX third party update for Service Console kernel
The ESX Service Console Operating System (COS) kernel is updated to kernel-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5 to fix multiple security issues in the COS kernel.
b. ESX third party update for Service Console cURL RPM
The ESX Service Console (COS) curl RPM is updated to cURL-7.15.5.9 resolving a security issue.
c. ESX third party update for Service Console nspr and nss RPMs
The ESX Service Console (COS) nspr and nss RPMs are updated to nspr-4.8.8-1.el5_7 and nss-3.12.10-4.el5_7 respectively resolving a security issue.
A Certificate Authority (CA) issued fraudulent SSL certificates and Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) and Network Security Services (NSS) contain the built-in tokens of this fraudulent Certificate Authority. This update renders all SSL certificates signed by the fraudulent CA as untrusted for all uses.
d. ESX third party update for Service Console rpm RPMs
The ESX Service Console Operating System (COS) rpm packages are updated to popt-1.10.2.3-22.el5_7.2, rpm-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2, rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2 and rpm-python-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2 which fixes multiple security issues.
e. ESX third party update for Service Console samba RPMs
The ESX Service Console Operating System (COS) samba packages are updated to samba-client-3.0.33-3.29.el5_7.4, samba-common-3.0.33-3.29.el5_7.4 and libsmbclient-3.0.33-3.29.el5_7.4 which fixes multiple security issues in the Samba client.
f. ESX third party update for Service Console python package
The ESX Service Console (COS) python package is updated to 2.4.3-44 which fixes multiple security issues.
g. ESXi update to third party component python
The python third party library is updated to python 2.5.6 which fixes multiple security issues.
Solution
Apply the missing patch(es).
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Related Vulnerabilities
- VMSA-2012-0007 VMware hosted products and ESX patches address privilege escalation
- VMSA-2012-0012 VMware ESXi update addresses several security issues.
- VMSA-2011-0009.3 VMware hosted product updates, ESX patches and VI Client update resolve multiple security issues
- VMSA-2010-0009: ESXi utilities and ESX Service Console third party updates
- VMSA-2011-0007 VMware ESXi and ESX Denial of Service and third party updates for Likewise components and ESX Service Console