VMware releases patches for Meltdown and Spectre bug

Important patches available

VMware has issued Security Advisories for the recent Meltdown and Spectre bugs to address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution.

I recommend reading a post by Anton Gostev (Veeam), which i reposted yesterday.

It includes patches for VC, ESXi, Workstation and Fusion.

VMSA-2018-0004

VMware vSphere, Workstation and Fusion updates add Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Remediation for speculative execution issue.

There’s also an update to VMSA-2018-0002

VMSA-2018-0002.1

Problem description (from advisory):

CPU data cache timing can be abused to efficiently leak information out of mis-speculated CPU execution, leading to (at worst) arbitrary virtual memory read vulnerabilities across local security boundaries in various contexts. (Speculative execution is an automatic and inherent CPU performance optimization used in all modern processors.) ESXi, Workstation and Fusion are vulnerable to Bounds Check Bypass and Branch Target Injection issues resulting from this vulnerability.

Result of exploitation may allow for information disclosure from one Virtual Machine to another Virtual Machine that is running on the same host. The remediation listed in the table below is for the known variants of the Bounds Check Bypass and Branch Target Injection issues.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifiers CVE-2017-5753 (Bounds Check bypass) and CVE-2017-5715 (Branch Target Injection) to these issues.

Using VUM

Depending on your download schedule you might trigger Update Manager first to find the latest patches. After scanning the cluster for compliance it will show the two new patches.

 

Manual Download

VMSA-2018-0002.1

VMware ESXi 6.5
Downloads:
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch
Documentation:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2151099

 

VMware ESXi 6.0
Downloads:
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch
Documentation:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2151132

 

VMware ESXi 5.5
Downloads:
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch
Documentation:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/52127

 

VMware Workstation Pro, Player 12.5.8

Downloads and Documentation:
https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadworkstation
https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/ws_pubs.html

 

VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion 8.5.9
Downloads and Documentation:
https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadfusion
https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/fusion_pubs.html

 

VMSA-2018-0004

vCenter Server 6.5 U1e
Downloads and Documentation:
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=614&rPId=20950&downloadGroup=VC65U1E

 

vCenter Server 6.0 U3d
Downloads and Documentation:
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VC60U3D&productId=491&rPId=20946

 

vCenter Server 5.5 U3g
Downloads and Documentation:
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VC55U3G&productId=353&rPId=20876

 

VMware ESXi 6.5
Downloads:
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch
Documentation:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/52198
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/52199

 

VMware ESXi 6.0
Downloads:
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch
Documentation:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/52205
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/52206

 

VMware ESXi 5.5
Downloads:
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch
Documentation:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/52127

 

VMware Workstation Pro, Player 14.1.1

Downloads and Documentation:
https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadworkstation

https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadplayer
https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/ws_pubs.html

 

VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion 8.5.10, 10.1.1
Downloads and Documentation:
https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadfusion
https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/fusion_pubs.html

 

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