ESXi 5.0 < Build 764879 Multiple Vulnerabilities (remote check)
High Nessus Plugin ID 70884
Synopsis
The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by multiple security vulnerabilities.
Description
The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by the following security vulnerabilities :
- Errors exist in the Libxml2 library functions 'xmlXPathNextPrecedingSibling', 'xmlNodePtr' and 'xmlXPathNextPrecedingInternal' that could allow denial of service attacks or arbitrary code execution.
(CVE-2010-4008)
- Buffer overflow errors exist in the libxml2 library functions 'xmlCharEncFirstLineInt' and 'xmlCharEncInFunc' that could allow denial of service attacks or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2011-0216)
- A buffer overflow error exists in the libxml2 library file 'xpath.c' related to handling 'XPath' nodesets that could allow denial of service attacks or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2011-1944)
- A double-free error exists in the libxml2 library function 'xmlXPathCompOpEval' related to handling invalid 'XPath' expressions that could allow denial of service attacks or arbitrary code execution.
(CVE-2011-2834)
- An out-of-bounds read error exists in the libxml2 library file 'parser.c' related to handling 'Stop' orders that could allow denial of service attacks.
(CVE-2011-3905)
- A buffer overflow error exists in the libxml2 library function 'xmlStringLenDecodeEntities' related to copying entities that could allow denial of service attacks or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2011-3919)
- An error exists in the libxml2 library related to hash collisions that could allow denial of service attacks.
(CVE-2012-0841)
Solution
Apply patch ESXi500-201207101-SG.