VMSA-2010-0010

ESX 3.5 third party update for Service Console kernel

1. Summary

ESX 3.5 Console OS (COS) updates for COS package 'kernel'.

2. Relevant releases

VMware ESX 3.5 without patch ESX350-201006401-SG

Notes:
Effective May 2010, VMware's patch and update release program during Extended Support will be continued with the condition that all subsequent patch and update releases will be based on the latest
baseline release version as of May 2010 (i.e. ESX 3.0.3 Update 1, ESX 3.5 Update 5, and VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 6). Refer to section "End of Product Availability FAQs" at
www.vmware.com/support/policies/lifecycle/vi/faq.html for details.

Extended support for ESX 3.0.3 ends on 2011-12-10. Users should plan to upgrade to at least ESX 3.5 and preferably to the newest release available.

3. Problem Description

The service console package kernel is updated to version 2.4.21-63.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names CVE-2008-5029, CVE-2008-5300, CVE-2009-1337, CVE-2009-1385, CVE-2009-1895, CVE-2009-2848, CVE-2009-3002, and CVE-2009-3547 to the security issues fixed in kernel-2.4.21-63.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names CVE-2009-2698, CVE-2009-2692 to the security issues fixed in kernel-2.4.21-60.
Column 4 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.

* hosted products are VMware Workstation, Player, ACE, Server, Fusion.

4. Solution

Please review the patch/release notes for your product and version and verify the md5sum of your downloaded file.

ESX 3.5
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download3.vmware.com/software/vi/ESX350-201006401-SG.zip
md5sum: b89fb8a51c4a896bc0bf297b57645d1d
kb.vmware.com/kb/1022899

5. References

CVE numbers
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi

6. Change log

2010-06-24 VMSA-2010-0010 Initial security advisory after release of patches for ESX 3.5 on 2010-06-24

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