Download Patch ESX-1000073 for VMware ESX Server 3.0.1

Security Issues

This patch provides updates to the Kerberos network authentication packages provided in the VMware ESX Server Service Console. Possible vulnerabilities have been found with the krb5 telnet daemon, the Kerberos KDC, and kadmin. Although these features are not enabled in the Service Console by default, VMware recommends that all users apply this patch.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the names CVE-2007-0956, CVE-2007-0957, and CVE-2007-1216 to this issue.

Applicability

This patch is for ESX Server 3.0.1 only. For the related patch for ESX 3.0.0, please see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1000080

View KB 1000073 for more information on this patch.

Download Instructions

Download and verify the patch bundle as follows :

1. Download patch ESX-1000073 by clicking on the link above.
2. Log into the ESX Server service console as root.
3. Create a local depot directory.

   # mkdir -p /var/updates

   Note: VMware recommends that you use the updates directory.

4. Change your working directory to /var/updates.

   # cd /var/updates

5. Download the tar file into the /var/updates directory.
6. Verify the integrity of the downloaded tar file:

   # md5sum ESX-1000073.tgz

7. The md5 checksum output should match the following:

   be83416cd0ba35c2b46e3550608b436e ESX-1000073.tgz

8. Extract the compressed tar archive:

   # tar -xvzf ESX-1000073.tgz

9. Change to the newly created directory, /var/updates/ESX-1000073:

   # cd ESX-1000073

Installation Instructions

Note: There is no need to shut down the virtual machines on the host or to migrate them using VMotion before applying the patch. No reboot of the ESX Server Host is required after applying this patch.

Once you have downloaded and extracted the archive, and if you are in the directory you created above, install the update using the following command:

# esxupdate update

If you want to run esxupdate from a different directory, you must specify the bundle path in the command:

# esxupdate -r file://<directory>/ESX-1000073 update

for example, if the host is called depot:

# esxupdate -r file:///depot/var/updates/ESX-1000073 update

During the update process, logs appear on the terminal. You can specify the verbosity of esxupdate logs by using the -v option as shown below.

# esxupdate -v 10 file://<directory>/ESX-1000073 update

for more information on using esxupdate, please refer to the Patch Management for ESX Server 3 tech note at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_esxupdate.pdf.