CVE-2013-5970

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware ESXi versions 4.0 through 5.0 VMware ESX versions 4.0 through 4.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically a hostd-vmdb service outage, by modifying management traffic.

Recommendations For VMware ESXi versions 4.0 through 5.0, update to a version that is not affected by this issue. For VMware ESX versions 4.0 through 4.1, update to a version that is not affected by this issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to management traffic to minimize the risk of exploitation.