You’ve got to keep your software updated. Some unknown miscreants are exploiting a critical VMware vCenter Server bug more than a year after Broadcom patched the flaw.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-37079, is an out-of-bounds write flaw in vCenter Server’s implementation of the DCERPC protocol that earned a 9.8 out of 10 CVSS rating. In other words: it’s almost as bad as it gets. DCERPC, which stands for Distributed Computing Environment/Remote Procedure Calls, allows software to invoke procedures and services on a remote system across a network.
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Source: The Register
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