SunGard Availability Services today announced it is now offering support of VMware® ESX Server 3.x and the distributed services that are part of VMware Infrastructure through its Operating System (OS) Management Service. With this enhancement, SunGard now provides full management of customers’ systems running in a virtualized environment on the VMware Infrastructure platform—a key milestone in the company’s ongoing virtualization initiative. The service includes a VMware VirtualCenter management server to monitor and manage a customer’s virtual machines, as well as complete monitoring, management and reporting of the physical servers.As enterprises develop virtualization strategies beyond server consolidation, new needs arise for virtualization infrastructure management. Many companies are using the distributed services that are part of VMware Infrastructure such as VMware High Availability, VMotion and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler to help ensure availability of their critical systems, applications and information. SunGard can manage these systems, both in production and testing, allowing internal IT teams to focus on more strategic initiatives, while also saving costly investments in infrastructure.
vulnerable software: VMware Workstation 6.0 for Windows, possible some other VMware products as well type of vulnerability: DoS, potential privilege escalation I found a vulnerability in VMware Workstation 6.0 which allows an unprivileged user in the host OS to crash the system and potentially run arbitrary code with kernel privileges. The issue is in the vmstor-60 driver, which is supposed to mount VMware images within the host OS. When sending the IOCTL code FsSetVoleInformation with subcode FsSetFileInformation with a large buffer and underreporting its size to at max 1024 bytes, it will underrun and potentially execute arbitrary code. Security focus
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