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ESX Server 3.0.2, Patch ESX-1005103: Concurrency Issue in Retrieving the AboutInfo Data Structure; hostd Agent Might Crash While Getting Configuration Object for Snapshot Virtual Machine

Details

Release Date: 06/13/08
Document Last Updated: 06/13/08
 
51e30ed453466a10e6a9d9ddb203d732
Product Versions
ESX Server 3.0.2
Patch Classification
Critical
Supersedes
Virtual Machine Migration or Reboot Required
No
ESX Server Host Reboot Required
No
PRs Fixed
252558, 279682
Affected Hardware
N/A
Affected Software
Unknown
RPMs Included
VMware-hostd-esx
Related CVE numbers
N/A

Summary

When querying the ESX Server host's AboutInfo data structure concurrently through the SDK, the host agent process might crash due to a memory corruption. Fixed the hostd agent crash while getting Configuration object for snapshot virtual machine. The fix is to handle an exception gracefully in case of invalid datastore.

Solution

Symptoms

When querying the ESX Server host's AboutInfo data structure concurrently through the SDK, the host agent process could crash due to a memory corruption. The code returning the AboutInfo data has been fixed to handle concurrency correctly.
 
 
VMware Host Agent stops responding when registering a virtual machine from a recovered datastore on a secondary disaster recovery center with an error message: Exception in AddToDsUrls:vim.fault.InvalidDatastore filename in the hostd.log file.

Deployment Considerations

N/A

Download Instructions

Download and verify the patch bundle as follows :

1.      Download patch ESX-1005103 from http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches.html .
 
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-1005103.tgz

The md5 checksum output should match the following:

51e30ed453466a10e6a9d9ddb203d732 ESX-1005103.tgz
 

7.      Extract the compressed tar archive:

# tar -xvzf ESX-1005103.tgz

8.      Change to the newly created directory, /var/updates/ESX-1005103:

# cd ESX-1005103

Installation Instructions

After you download and extract the archive, and if you are in the directory that you previously created, use the following command to install the update:

# esxupdate update

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

# esxupdate -r file://<directory>/ESX-1005103 update

For example, if the host is called depot:

# esxupdate -r file:///depot/var/updates/ESX-1005103 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-1005103 update

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

Keywords

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  • KB Article: 1005103
  • Updated: Aug 14, 2009
  • Products:
    VMware ESX
  • Product Versions:
    VMware ESX 3.0.x