Releases Security Updates (November 12th , 2019)

Ref# VMware | Date: Nov 18th 2019

Description

The VMware has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in ESXI, workstation, and Fusion. It is recommended that you take the necessary precautions by ensuring your products are always updated.

Advisory ID

VMSA-2019-0020

Advisory Severity

Moderate

CVSSv3 Range

6.5

Synopsis

VMware ESXI, Workstation, and Fusion patches provide Hypervisor-specific Mitigations for Denial-of-Service and Speculative-Execution Vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-12207, CVE-2019-11135)  

Issue Date

2019-11-12

Updated On

2019-11-12 (initial Advisory)

CVE(s)

CVE-2018-12207, CVE-2019-11135

For more information on the updates you can follow this url:

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0020.html 

Advisory ID

VMSA-2019-0021

Advisory Severity

Important

CVSSv3 Range

5.0-8.7

Synopsis

VMware Workstation and Fusion updates address multiple security vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-5540, CVE-2019-5541, CVE-2019-5542)

Issue Date

2019-11-12

Updated On

2019-11-12 (Initial Advisory)

CVE(s)

CVE-2019-5540, CVE-2019-5541, CVE-2019-5542

For more information on the updates you can follow this url:

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0021.html 

The Guyana National CIRT recommends users and administration to review these updates and to apply them where necessary.

Reference

  VMware Releases Security Updates (US-Cert)

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2019/11/12/adobe-releases-security-updates