Friday, 3 October 2014

ShellShock is present in 37 VMware products

The company had released corrections only for few of their products. VMware is actively working to eliminate ShellShock vulnerabilities in their 37 virtual products, but so far it released corrections only for few of them. The company recommended its customers to install patches for Linux, Android, OSX and iOS, as many products are working precisely on the basis of these operating systems.

The vulnerability does not affect the software product for enterprise virtualization VMware ESX Server, because it uses the shell Ash, as well as products that are running by Windows (including vCentre Server).
ShellShock affects different versions of vCloud Director, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Mirage Gateway and the vSphere Storage Appliance. VMware recommended users properly configure firewalls and other network-level controls and allow an access to the products only from trusted IP-addresses. This arrangement will greatly reduce any risk for them.
After the discovery of vulnerabilities in Bash shell technology companies, such as Linux, Apple and OpenVPN released a series of updates for their products. According to security researcher from the company Rapid7 Uaysmen Greg (Greg Wiseman), patch Apple, released for 10.8 Mountain Lion, was not effective enough.

The expert used a  bash check tool on 10.8 Mountain Lion to check all vulnerabilities. The test results proved that the platform is still vulnerable to CVE-2014-7186.



Source: securitylab.ru

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