{"id":59902,"date":"2024-03-06T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=d2186c157a788b005b8f4d055693e74e"},"modified":"2024-03-06T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T20:19:39","slug":"vmware-sandbox-escape-bugs-are-so-critical-patches-are-released-for-end-of-life-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59902","title":{"rendered":"VMware sandbox escape bugs are so critical, patches are released for end-of-life products"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: Oh dip.\nFor enterprise-ball-squeezer Broadcom to be that \"generous\" with patches, this must be bad enough they're worried about reputation damage and\/or getting blamed for internet-scale problems.<\/div>
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VMware is urging customers to patch critical vulnerabilities that make it possible for hackers to break out of sandbox and hypervisor protections in all versions, including out-of-support ones, of VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation products.<\/p>\n

A constellation of four vulnerabilities—two carrying severity ratings of 9.3 out of a possible 10—are serious because they undermine the fundamental purpose of the VMware products, which is to run sensitive operations inside a virtual machine that’s segmented from the host machine. VMware officials said that the prospect of a hypervisor escape warranted an immediate response under the company’s IT Infrastructure Library<\/a>, a process usually abbreviated as ITIL.<\/p>\n

“Emergency change”<\/h2>\n

“In ITIL terms, this situation qualifies as an emergency change, necessitating prompt action from your organization,” the officials wrote in a post<\/a>. “However, the appropriate security response varies depending on specific circumstances.”<\/p><\/div>

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