Topics Security Off-Prem On-Prem Software Offbeat Special Features Vendor Voice Vendor Voice Resources Critical vulns in USB under ESXi and desktop hypervisors found by Chinese researchers at cracking contest
Hypervisors are supposed to provide an inviolable isolation layer between virtual machines and hardware. But hypervisor heavyweight VMware by Broadcom yesterday revealed its hypervisors are not quite so inviolable as it might like. In a security advisory the Broadcom business unit warned of four flaws. The nastiest two – CVE-2024-22252 and 22253 – are rated 9.3/10 on VMware's Workstation and Fusion desktop hypervisors and 8.4 on the ESXi server hypervisor. The flaws earned those ratings as t...
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