Announcing General Availability of VMware vCenter Server 6.7 U3a

What’s New?

The vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3a release addresses the following critical issues for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance:

• Fix to address vCSA SSH backup MITM issue – Now you can enforce strict certificate validation for file-based backup and restore operations by including the root CA certificate in all file transfers. For more information, see VMware knowledge base article 75156.
• Fix for vSAN UI does not appear in vSphere Client after upgrade to 6.7 Update 3
• Fix for the following convergence issues :
  • Convergence, domain repointing and fresh installation of a vCenter Server Appliance with an embedded Platform Services Controller connected in Embedded Linked Mode might fail with error install.vmafd.vmdir_vdcpromo_error_21
  • Convergence of a vCenter Server instance with an external Platform Services Controller to a vCenter Server instance with an embedded Platform Services Controller fails with error 41204

The following important CVE fixes in the vCenter Server Appliance:

1.) [CVE-2018-14682, CVE-2018-14681]: libmspack
2.) [CVE-2018-20843] package: expat branch :1.0
3.) [CVE-2019-12900]: bzip2
4.) [CVE-2019-13117, CVE-2019-13118]: libxslt
5.) [CVE-2019-13232] package: unzip branch :1.0
6.) [CVE-2019-13638] package: patch branch :1.0
7.) [CVE-2019-15902, CVE-2016-10905, CVE-2019-10638]: linux

Documentation and Links

Download Link:
– vCenter-all
– ESXi Product Patches

Documentation:
– Photon OS Security Patches
– vCenter Server 6.7 U3a Release Notes

Announcing General Availability of VMware vCenter Server 6.5 U3d

What’s New?

The vCenter Server 6.5 Update 3d release addresses the following critical issue for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance:

Fix to address vCSA SSH backup MITM issue – Now you can enforce strict certificate validation for file-based backup and restore operations by including the root CA certificate in all file transfers. For more information, see VMware knowledge base article 75156.