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Security Advisories are the official notification of security-related vulnerabilities and issues impacting VMware products. Security Advisories outline complete information on how to protect impacted systems. Each advisory contains a detailed description of the security vulnerability, affected systems, threat severity, risk mitigation techniques for fixing the vulnerability and securing the system.

VMware Security Advisories

July 28, 2008 VMSA-2008-0011

Updated ESX service console packages for Samba and vmnix


June 16, 2008 VMSA-2008-0010.1

Updated Tomcat and Java JRE packages for VMware ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5


June 4, 2008 VMSA-2008-0009.2

Updates to VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Fusion, VMware Server, VMware VIX API, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi resolve critical security issues


May 30, 2008 VMSA-2008-0008

Updates to VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Fusion resolve critical security issues


April 16, 2008 VMSA-2008-0007.2

Moderate Updated Service Console packages pcre, net-snmp, and OpenPegasus


April 4, 2008 VMSA-2008-0006.1

Updated libxml2 service console package


March 17, 2008 VMSA-2008-0005.1

Several critical security vulnerabilities have been addressed in the newest releases of VMware's hosted product line.


March 3, 2008 VMSA-2008-0004.1

Updated e2fsprogs service console package


February 21, 2008 VMSA-2008-0003.1

Updated aacraid driver and Samba and Python service console updates


January 22, 2008 VMSA-2008-0001.1

Updated service console patches.


January 7, 2008 VMSA-2008-0002.1

Updated Tomcat and Java JRE packages for VirtualCenter 2.5, VirtualCenter 2.0.2, ESX 3.5, ESX 3.0.2, and ESX 3.0.1.


September 18, 2007 VMSA-2007-0006

Updated versions of all supported hosted products and all ESX 2x products and patches for ESX 30x address critical security updates. Service Console security updates for samba, bind, krb5, vixie-cron, shadow-utils, openldap, pam,...


July 5, 2007 VMSA-2007-0005

Updated Service Console packages (XFree86, UP and SMP kernels, Kerberos libraries) resolve security issues.


May 17, 2007 VMSA-2007-0004.1

Multiple Denial-of-Service issues fixed. A directory traversal vulnerability is also addressed.


April 2, 2007 VMSA-2007-0003

ESX 3.0.1 and 3.0.0 patches address several security issues.


March 30, 2007 VMSA-2007-0002

Updated ESX Patches address several security issues.


January 8, 2007 VMSA-2007-0001

Updated ESX Patches address several security issues.


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