ESXi 5.1 < Build 3070626 Shared Folders (HGFS) Guest Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2016-0001) (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.1 host is prior to build 3070626. 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 5.1 < Build 3021178 OpenSLP RCE (VMSA-2015-0007)

The remote VMware ESXi host is version 5.1 prior to build 3021178. 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...

ESXi 5.1 < Build 2323236 Third-Party Libraries Multiple Vulnerabilities (remote check) (BEAST)

The remote VMware ESXi host is version 5.1 prior to build 2323236. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities in bundled third-party libraries : - Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the bundled Python library. CVE-2011-3389, CVE-2012-0845, CVE-2012-0876, CVE-2012-1150,...

ESXi 5.1 < Build 1312873 File Descriptors Privilege Escalation (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.1 host is affected by an error in the handling of certain Virtual Machine file descriptors. This could allow an unprivileged user with the 'Add Existing Disk' privilege to obtain read and write access to arbitrary files, possibly leading to arbitrary code execution after ...

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 5.1 < Build 1063671 Multiple Vulnerabilities (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi 5.1 host is affected by the following security vulnerabilities : - An integer overflow condition exists in the glibc library in the tzfileread function that allows a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. CVE-2009-5029 - An error exists in the glibc library related ...