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VMware Updates

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Classification
These posts contain security alerts, including digital loopholes, electronic attacks, technical updates, and they are classified base on the level of severity.

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Warning Date

Severity Level

Warning Number

Target Sector

13 November, 2019

● High

2019-618

All

Description:

VMware has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in the following products:

  • VMware ESXi Versions 6.7, 6.5, 6.0
  • Workstation All versions 15.x
  • Fusion All versions 11.x

Threats:

Attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:

  • Denial of service attack (DoS).
  • Disclose sensitive information.
  • Trigger a purple diagnostic screen or immediate reboot of the Hypervisor hosting the virtual machine
  • Execute arbitrary code.

Best practice and Recommendations

The CERT team encourages users to review VMware security advisory and apply the necessary updates:

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories.html

Last updated at 1 January, 2020

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