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-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 $...

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 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 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...