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VMware ESX Server Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA22875  
Release Date: 2006-11-14

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:VMware ESX Server 2.x


CVE reference:CAN-2004-2069 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-2177 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-2491 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-1056 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-1342 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-1343 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-1864 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-2071 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-3403 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-3467 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities, security issues, and a weakness have been reported in VMware ESX Server, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions and disclose potentially sensitive information, or by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA15930
SA16793
SA19357
SA19657
SA19724
SA19869
SA20100
SA20980

This also fixes a security issue is OpenSSH, which is caused due to an error in signaling child processes to terminate after the LoginGraceTime period has expired. This may be exploited to cause a DoS by preventing the daemon from accepting new connections.

Solution:
VMware ESX Server 2.0.2:
Apply Upgrade Patch 2

VMware ESX Server 2.1.3:
Apply Upgrade Patch 2

VMware ESX Server 2.5.3:
Apply Upgrade Patch 4 (do not apply this patch to SunFire X4100 or X4200 servers).

VMware ESX Server 2.5.4:
Apply Upgrade Patch 1

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://www.vmware.com/download/esx/esx-253-200610-patch.html
http://www.vmware.com/download/esx/esx-254-200610-patch.html
http://www.vmware.com/download/esx/esx-213-200610-patch.html
http://www.vmware.com/download/esx/esx-202-200610-patch.html

Other References:
SA15930:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15930/

SA16793:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16793/

SA19357:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19357/

SA19657:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19657/

SA19724:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19724/

SA19869:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19869/

SA20100:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20100/

SA20980:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20980/



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