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Secunia Advisory SA22875

VMware ESX Server Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA22875
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2006-11-14
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Security Bypass
Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Operating System
VMware ESX Server 2.x
Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CAN-2004-2069 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-2177 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-2491 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-1056 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-1342 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-1343 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-1864 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-2071 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-3403 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-3467 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

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:
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

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
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Deep Links
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Do you have additional information related to this advisory?

Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com

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