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VMSA-2019-0011: Partial denial of service vulnerability in ESXi hostd process (CVE-2019-5528)

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VMSA-2019-0011: Partial denial of service vulnerability in ESXi hostd process (CVE-2019-5528)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/11/2019
Created
09/07/2019
Added
09/06/2019
Modified
09/06/2019

Description

VMware ESXi 6.5 suffers from partial denial of service vulnerability in hostd process. Patch ESXi650-201907201-UG for this issue is available.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-esxi65-upgrade-13932383
  • vmware-esxi67-upgrade-14320388

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