Knowledge Base

Symptoms

There are no symptoms available for the security fixes.

Impact

This patch resolves the security issue described above.

For the related patch for ESX Server 3.0.0, see KB 1001205.

Download Instructions

Download and verify the patch bundle as follows:

1. Download patch ESX-1001214 by clicking on the link above.
2. Log in to the ESX Server service console as root.
3. Create a local depot directory.

   # mkdir -p /var/updates

   Note: VMware recommends that you use the updates directory.

4. Change your working directory to /var/updates.

   # cd /var/updates

5. Download the tar file into the /var/updates directory.
6. Verify the integrity of the downloaded tar file:

   # md5sum ESX-1001214.tgz
   
   The md5 checksum output should match the following:
   
   1e63db1cc7605830b16306a35bccd878 ESX-1001214.tgz

7. Extract the compressed tar archive:

   # tar -xvzf ESX-1001214.tgz

8. Change to the newly created directory, /var/updates/ESX-1001214:

   # cd ESX-1001214

Installation Instructions

After you have downloaded and extracted the archive, and if you are in the directory you created above, install the update using the following command:

# esxupdate update

To run esxupdate from a different directory, you must specify the bundle path in the command:

# esxupdate -r file://<directory>/ESX-1001214 update

For example, if the host is called depot:

# esxupdate -r file:///depot/var/updates/ESX-1001214 update

During the update process, logs appear on the terminal. You can specify the verbosity of esxupdate logs by using the -v option as shown below.

# esxupdate -v 10 file://<directory>/ESX-1001214 update

For more information on using esxupdate, refer to the Patch Management for ESX Server 3 tech note at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_esxupdate.pdf.