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VMware Bug Allowed Root Access (arstechnica.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the changing-access-permissions dept.

c4231 quotes Ars Technica: While everyone was screaming about Meltdown and Spectre, another urgent security fix was already in progress for many corporate data centers and cloud providers who use products from Dell's EMC and VMware units. A trio of critical, newly reported vulnerabilities in EMC and VMware backup and recovery tools -- EMC Avamar, EMC NetWorker, EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance, and vSphere Data Protection -- could allow an attacker to gain root access to the systems or to specific files, or inject malicious files into the server's file system. These problems can only be fixed with upgrades. While the EMC vulnerabilities were announced late last year, VMware only became aware of its vulnerability last week.

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  1. I used to work at vmware. Criminal engineering. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used to work at vmware. They have criminals in china doing most of the code. The code is "lost" now. The smart people who made it are all gone and they have very young engineers from china doing all the code. Its riddled with bugs and likely back doors. They also destroyed the Nicira team. Smart, talented SDN guys who are all gone. Now Nicira is more or less dead and the crap china code, NSX-V and the new crap china code, NSX-T is there. Its crap. And they cant make a single installer for all their crap. each of their products is totally disjointed. You cant find a SINGLE PERSON at vmware capable of installing all of their products. Try finding someone who can install FOUR. Lets alone all of them. Its a alot of chinese and desi engineers who are way too young to understand what they are building. the product managers are young bucks who sling marketing slides but never automation and code. Its a shame. I really think all the engineering talent is locked up with that psycho asshole bezos / scamazon, microsoft, google and alibaba and tencent. the rest of the IT shops are full of young obedient small minded desi and chinese slaves who "do whatever". the really smart engineers at google, fakebook, scamazon, microsoft and google might be smarter but they willfully implement horrible evil plans for the love of money. the NSX+ESXi+vpshere on scamazon truly sucks, its double locking, lockin to scamazon and then locking to the horrible NSX apis for doing networking crap. if you can call them APIs. In reality NSX forces most configuration to do CLICK OPS, not really automated. Disgusting. vmware is a burnt out husk of what it used to be. tsarkon reports

  2. Re: I used to work at vmware. Criminal engineering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OP in this thread is a rambling mix of personal anecdotes and copypasta that's less coherent than the current US president.

    Also, the post is full of grammatical errors, conspiracy theories, and "I'm off my meds" markers like missing capitalization and calling Amazon "scamazon," etc, and then it ends with the promise of more copypasta but abruptly ends with "tsarkon reports."

  3. Re: I used to work at vmware. Criminal engineerin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The thing is I too worked for vmware and having seen the code I know heâ(TM)s right.

    They have comment boxes top and bottom of large sections of code typically accompanied by a statement of âoedonâ(TM)t touch this, no one knows what it doesâ.

    The hostd is a perfect example.

    But he is wrong about Chinese developers. Itâ(TM)s hiring directly from MIT to reverse engineer the code.

    This was all about 4 years ago so Iâ(TM)m not sure where things are at now. I do know that the vSphere Appliance in 6.5 is a pos for installing and configuring. It works about every 5th time and goodness me I hope your environment isnâ(TM)t too special or itâ(TM)s just not happening.