Hypervisor vulnerabilities
Hypervisor vulnerabilities affect the ability to provide and manage core elements, including CPI, I/O, disk, and memory, to virtual machines hosted on the hypervisor. As with any other software system, vulnerabilities are identified and vendors work toward patching them as quickly as possible before an exploit is found.
Several key vulnerabilities exist at this time, specific to VMware ESXi, including buffer overflow and directory traversal vulnerabilities. The following information is taken from the National Vulnerability Database (http://nvd.nist.gov):
Note
National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability summary for CVE-2013-3658
Original release date: 09/10/2013
Last revised: 09/12/2013
Source: US-CERT/NIST
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