VMSA-2008-0015 Updated ESXi and ESX 3.5 packages address critical security issue in openwsman

               VMware Security Advisory

Openwsman is a system management platform that implements the Web
Services Management protocol &#40;WS-Management&#41;. It is installed and
running by default. It is used in the VMware Management Service
Console and in ESXi.

The openwsman 2.0.0 management service on ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 is
vulnerable to the following issue found by the SuSE Security-Team:

- Two remote buffer overflows while decoding the HTTP basic
  authentication header

This vulnerability could potentially be exploited by users without
valid login credentials.

Openwsman before 2.0.0 is not vulnerable to this issue. The ESXi
3.5 patch ESXe350-200808201-O-UG updated openwsman to version 2.0.0.
The ESX 3.5 patch ESX350-200808205-UG updated openwsman to version
2.0.0. These patches are installed as part of the ESX and ESXi
Upgrade 2 release. The ESX patch can be installed individually.

Version Information and Workaround
The following VMware KB articles provide information on how to
obtain the version of openwsman in your environment and what a
possible workaround for the issue might be.
ESXi 3.5
  Refer to the VMware KB article at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1005818.
ESX 3.5
  Refer to the VMware KB article at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006878.

Note: This vulnerability can be exploited remotely only if the
      attacker has access to the service console network.
      Security best practices provided by VMware recommend that the
      service console be isolated from the VM network. Please see
      http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/726 for more
      information on VMware security best practices.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project &#40;cve.mitre.org&#41;
has assigned the name CVE-2008-2234 this issue.

The following table lists what action remediates the vulnerability
&#40;column 4&#41; if a solution is available.

VMware         Product   Running  Replace with/
Product        Version   on       Apply Patch
=============  ========  =======  =================
VirtualCenter  any       Windows  not affected

hosted *       any       any      not affected

ESXi           3.5 **    ESXi     ESXe350-200808501-I-SG
ESXi           3.5 ***   ESXi     not affected

ESX            3.5 **    ESX      ESX350-200808413-SG
ESX            3.5 ***   ESX      not affected
ESX            3.0.3     ESX      not affected
ESX            3.0.2     ESX      not affected
ESX            3.0.1     ESX      not affected
ESX            2.5.5     ESX      not affected
ESX            2.5.4     ESX      not affected

* hosted products are VMware Workstation, Player, ACE, Server, Fusion.
** ESX and ESXi running openwsman 2.0.0
*** ESX and ESXi running version of openwsman before 2.0.0

Note: When the SuSE Security-Team reported this openwsman security
      issue, it also reported the openwsman issue described in
      CVE-2008-2233. No VMware product is affected by the security
      vulnerability described in CVE-2008-2233.

VMSA-2008-0015 Updated ESXi and ESX 3.5 packages address critical security issue in openwsman

ESXi

ESX

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