SecurityWeek: VMware addresses critical vulnerabilities allowing sandbox escape in ESXi

VMware has recently addressed critical vulnerabilities in its ESXi virtualization platform that could allow attackers to escape from the sandboxed environment. These vulnerabilities were highlighted during Safety Week, a global initiative focused on raising awareness about the importance of cybersecurity. VMware acted promptly to release patches for these vulnerabilities, ensuring that users can continue to … Read more

Escape the Costly Grip of VMware with Virt-v2v: A How-To Guide

Escape the Costly Grip of VMware with Virt-v2v: A How-To Guide

Devconf.cz hosted the European edition of Red Hat’s developer conference, where Richard Jones presented a lightning talk on Virt-v2v for moving VMware VMs to Linux. This talk sparked interest as some customers reported high licensing costs under Broadcom’s ownership. Migrating VMs to a more cost-effective hypervisor is a solution, with options like Hyper-V, bhyve, and … Read more

VMware patches critical flaws that could allow attackers to escape VMs

VMware patches critical flaws that could allow attackers to escape VMs

VMware has released fixes for several flaws that together could allow attackers to execute malicious code on the host system from inside a virtual machine, bypassing the critical isolation layer. Some of the flaws are in the virtualized USB controllers, so they impact most VMware hypervisors: VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, and VMware Cloud … Read more

VMware fixes critical sandbox escape flaws in ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion

VMware fixes critical sandbox escape flaws in ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion

VMware released security updates to fix critical sandbox escape vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation products, allowing attackers to escape virtual machines and access the host operating system. These types of flaws are critical as they could permit attackers to gain unauthorized access to the host system where a hypervisor is installed … Read more

VMware Urges Immediate Patching for Critical Hypervisor Escape Vulnerabilities

VMware Urges Immediate Patching for Critical Hypervisor Escape Vulnerabilities

VMware, a leading innovator in enterprise software, has issued an urgent advisory for customers to patch critical vulnerabilities across its product suite, including ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation. A constellation of four flaws, with two rated at a severe 9.3 out of 10, threatens the core security feature of VMware products, enabling attackers to … Read more

VMware urgent updates addressed Critical ESXi Sandbox Escape bugs

VMware urgent updates addressed Critical ESXi Sandbox Escape bugs

VMware urgent updates addressed Critical ESXi Sandbox Escape bugs Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2024 VMware released urgent patches to address critical ESXi sandbox escape vulnerabilities in the ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and Cloud Foundation products Virtualization giant VMware released urgent updates to fix critical ESXi sandbox escape vulnerabilities in the ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation … Read more

Want to Escape VMware? Exit with Platform Engineering

Want to Escape VMware? Exit with Platform Engineering

Last year, Forrester predicted that 20% of VMware customers would ditch the ecosystem. With Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware, it looks like that is coming true — fast. Thousands of VMware customers have suddenly been hit by a wave of changes. Dozens of products are being dropped, permanent licences being abandoned and expected costs … Read more