ESXi 5.0 < Build 3086167 Shared Folders (HGFS) Guest Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2016-0001) (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is prior to build 3086167. It is, therefore, affected by a guest privilege escalation vulnerability in the Shared Folders HGFS feature due to improper validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can exploit this to corrupt memory, resulting in an elevation ...

VMware ESXi 5.0 < Build 3021432 OpenSLP RCE (VMSA-2015-0007)

The remote VMware ESXi host is version 5.0 prior to build 3021432. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to a double-free error in the SLPDProcessMessage function in OpenSLP. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a crafted package, to execute...

VMSA-2014-0005: VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, and ESXi patches address a guest privilege escalation

VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, and ESXi patches address a vulnerability in VMware Tools which could result in a privilege escalation on Microsoft Windows 8.1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbVMSA-2014-0005.nasl 6995 2017-08-23 11:52:03Z teissa $ VMSA-2014-0005: VMware Workstation, Player,...

VMSA-2013-0016 VMware ESXi and ESX unauthorized file access through vCenter Server and ESX (remote check)

VMware ESXi and ESX unauthorized file access through vCenter Server and ESX OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbVMSA-2013-0016remote.nasl 6074 2017-05-05 09:03:14Z teissa $ VMSA-2013-0016 VMware ESXi and ESX unauthorized file access through vCenter Server and ESX remote check Authors: Michael Meyer...

VMSA-2013-0014 VMware Workstation, Fusion, ESXi and ESX patches address a guest privilege escalation (remote check)

VMware Workstation, Fusion, ESXi and ESX patches address a vulnerability in the LGTOSYNC.SYS driver which could result in a privilege escalation on older Windows-based Guest Operating Systems. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbVMSA-2013-0014remote.nasl 6093 2017-05-10 09:03:18Z teissa $...

VMSA-2013-0011 VMware ESX and ESXi updates to third party libraries (remote check)

VMware has updated VMware ESXi and ESX to address a vulnerability in an unhandled exception in the NFC protocol handler. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbVMSA-2013-0011remote.nasl 6115 2017-05-12 09:03:25Z teissa $ VMSA-2013-0011 VMware ESX and ESXi updates to third party libraries remote check...

ESXi 5.0 < Build 721882 Multiple Vulnerabilities (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by the following security vulnerabilities : - An error exists related to handling checkpoint files that could allow memory corruption leading to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2012-3288 - An error exists related to handling mobile device traffic data tha...

ESXi 5.0 < Build 1197855 NFC Traffic Denial of Service (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by an unspecified error related to handling Network File Copy NFC traffic that could allow denial of service attacks. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid70878; scriptversion"1.11"; scriptcvsdate"Date: 2019/09/24...

ESXi 5.0 < Build 702118 Multiple Vulnerabilities (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by the following security vulnerabilities : - An error exists related to NFS traffic handling that could allow memory corruption leading to execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2012-2448 - Out-of-bounds write errors exist related to virtual floppy disc...

ESXi 5.0 < Build 764879 Multiple Vulnerabilities (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by the following security vulnerabilities : - Errors exist in the Libxml2 library functions 'xmlXPathNextPrecedingSibling', 'xmlNodePtr' and 'xmlXPathNextPrecedingInternal' that could allow denial of service attacks or arbitrary code execution...

ESXi 5.0 < Build 1311175 Multiple Vulnerabilities (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by the following security vulnerabilities : - Multiple errors exist related to OpenSSL that could allow information disclosure or denial of service attacks. CVE-2013-0166, CVE-2013-0169 - An error exists in the libxml2 library related to the expansion o...

ESXi 5.0 < Build 608089 Multiple Vulnerabilities (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A denial of service vulnerability exists in the big2toUtf8 function in file lib/xmltok.c in the libexpat library. A remote attacker can exploit this, via an XML document having malformed UTF-8 sequences, to cause a buffer...

VMSA-2013-0011 VMware ESX and ESXi updates to third party libraries

VMware has updated VMware ESXi and ESX to address a vulnerability in an unhandled exception in the NFC protocol handler. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbVMSA-2013-0011.nasl 6079 2017-05-08 09:03:33Z teissa $ VMSA-2013-0011 VMware ESX and ESXi updates to third party libraries Authors: Michael...

VMSA-2013-0004 VMware ESXi security update for third party library

The remote ESXi is missing one or more security related Updates from VMSA-2013-0004. Relevant Releases ESXi 5.1 without patch ESXi510-201304101 ESXi 5.0 without patch ESXi500-201303101 ESXi 4.0 without patch ESXi400-201305001 ESXi 4.1 without patch ESXi410-201304401 Problem Description The ESXi...