Synopsis :

The remote VMware ESXi host is missing a security-related patch.

Description :

a. ESXi update to third party component libxml2

The libxml2 third party library has been updated which addresses
multiple security issues.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the names CVE-2010-4008, CVE-2011-0216, CVE-2011-1944,
CVE-2011-2834, CVE-2011-3905, CVE-2011-3919 and CVE-2012-0841 to
these issues.

See also :

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2012/000190.html

Solution :

Apply the missing patch.

Risk factor :

Critical / CVSS Base Score : 10.0
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS Temporal Score : 8.3
(CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C)
Public Exploit Available : true