a. VMware vCenter Server LDAP Denial of Service (DoS).
VMware vCenter Server doesn’t correctly handle specially crafted LDAP network packets which may allow for remote DoS.
VMware would like to thank Honggang Ren of Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs for reporting this issue to us.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2017-4927 to this issue.
Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
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vcenter server | lt | 6.5 U1 | |
vcenter server | lt | 6.0 U3c | |
vcenter server | lt | 5.5 U3f |
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