Looking at Patch Gap Vulnerabilities in the VMware ESXi TCP/IP Stack

Over the last few years, multiple VMware ESXi remote, unauthenticated code execution vulnerabilities have been publicly disclosed. Some were also found to be exploited in the wild. Since these bugs were found in ESXi’s implementation of the SLP service, VMware provided workarounds to turn off the service. VMware also disabled the service by default starting with ESX 7.0 Update 2c. In this blog post, we explore another remotely reachable attack surface: ESXi’s TCP/IP stack implemented as a VMkernel …

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