The remote VMware ESX host is missing a security-related patch. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in several third-party components and libraries :

  - A denial of service vulnerability exists in the ACPI     Event Daemon (acpid) that allows a remote attacker to     cause a consumption of CPU resources by opening a large     number of UNIX sockets without closing them.
    (CVE-2009-0798)

  - A security bypass vulnerability exists in Samba in the     acl_group_override() function when dos filemode is     enabled. A remote attacker can exploit this to modify     access control lists for files via vectors related to     read access to uninitialized memory. (CVE-2009-1888)

  - A security bypass vulnerability exists in Samba in the     SMB subsystem due to improper handling of errors when     resolving pathnames. An authenticated, remote attacker     can exploit this to bypass intended sharing     restrictions, and read, create, or modify files, in     certain circumstances involving user accounts that lack     home directories. (CVE-2009-2813)

  - A denial of service vulnerability exists in Samba that     allows authenticated, remote attackers to cause an     infinite loop via an unanticipated oplock break     notification reply packet. (CVE-2009-2906)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Samba     in mount.cifs due to improper enforcement of     permissions. A local attacker can exploit this to read     part of the credentials file and obtain the password by     specifying the path to the credentials file and using     the --verbose or -v option. (CVE-2009-2948)

VMware ESX Third-Party Libraries and Components Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2010-0006) (remote check)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89738

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