{"id":5282,"date":"2018-03-26T12:06:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=5282"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T13:08:41","slug":"vmware-updates-for-esx-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/03\/26\/vmware-updates-for-esx-server\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware: Updates for ESX-Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Update\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Windows Update\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Update.jpg\" width=\"54\" align=\"left\" height=\"54\">Just a not for administrators who are responsible for VMware ESX servers. Thcompany released various updates. Among other things, microcode updates to close the Spectre\/Meltdown vulnerabilities are included.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I am not using VMware ESX servers, so I'm not the expert. Therefore I just provide the basic information here. There are 3 updates so far:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240102161929\/https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/52456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESXi650-201803001<\/a>: VMware ESXi 6.5, Patch Release ESXi650-201803001 (52456)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240226080938\/https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/52451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESXi600-201803001<\/a>: VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-201803001 (52451)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240226075854\/https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/52446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESXi550-201803001<\/a>: VMware ESXi 5.5, Patch Release ESXi550-201803001 (52446)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The updates were released on March 20, 2018 and have the same description  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This ESXi patch provides part of the hypervisor-assisted guest mitigation of <a href=\"http:\/\/cve.mitre.org\/cgi-bin\/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CVE-2017-5715<\/a> for guest operating systems. For important details on this mitigation, see VMware Security Advisory <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210127045124\/https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/security\/advisories\/VMSA-2018-0004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VMSA-2018-0004.3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cve.mitre.org\/cgi-bin\/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5715\">CVE-2017-5715<\/a> describes the Spectre\/Meltdown vulnerability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a not for administrators who are responsible for VMware ESX servers. Thcompany released various updates. Among other things, microcode updates to close the Spectre\/Meltdown vulnerabilities are included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1218],"tags":[1216,1215,195,1344],"class_list":["post-5282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update","category-virtualization","tag-meltdown","tag-spectre","tag-update","tag-vmware-esx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35100,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions\/35100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}