VMware patches remote make-me-root holes in vCenter Server, Cloud Foundation

Broadcom has emitted a pair of patches for vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter Server that a miscreant with network access to the software could exploit to completely commandeer a system. This also affects Cloud Foundation. The first flaw, CVE-2024-38812, is a heap overflow vulnerability in the Distributed Computing Environment/ …

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Thank you!

Thank you, Iain and the whole team, for posting this kind of news. I'm guessing the lack of 'engagement' this many hours after it dropped was due to everyone doing roughly the same thing: Rushing to download the files and start planning the update before someone starts screaming about it. Thankfully (at least late last night in the US) the download site behaved itself. This time....