CVE-2011-1785

CVE-2011-1785 affects VMware ESXi/ESX 4.0–4.1 and ESXi/ESX 4.x; it enables a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via socket exhaustion from crafted network traffic. The VMSA-2011-0007 advisory and OpenVAS/Nessus entries describe this socket exhaustion issue and list affected releases (ES...

VMSA-2011-0007 VMware ESXi and ESX Denial of Service and third party updates for Likewise components and ESX Service Console

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2011-0007 Synopsis: VMware ESXi and ESX Denial of Service and third party updates for Likewise components and ESX Service Console Iss...

VMSA-2011-0007 : VMware ESXi and ESX Denial of Service and third-party updates for Likewise components and ESX Service Console

a. ESX/ESXi Socket Exhaustion By sending malicious network traffic to an ESXi or ESX host an attacker could exhaust the available sockets which would prevent further connections to the host. In the event a host becomes inaccessible its virtual machines will continue to run and have network...