Cisco Custom ISO - VMWare ESXi after CVE -2015-7547

[Levent Ozturk]

Hi all,

Does anybody know if a new Cisco Custom iso will be available soon that resolves the vulnerability issue with GNU glibc (Feb 2016) for ESXi 5.5 or do we have to implement a manual workaround?

VMWare has already published a patch (ESXi 5.5 Patch 10) resolving the issue but when i install in test environment i see that some Cisco drivers are removed (enic and fnic) I checked this thread to find out if i can manually add them back:

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12338306/cisco-customized-esxi-55-update-2-image

but i could not figure out what is required or if installing only these two drivers would be enough..

Thanks in advance for your comments & guidance.

regards,

levent

[Walter Dey · Accepted solution]

Hi Levent

I don't think that Cisco will publish a revised OEM version. Therefore I would install the VMware patched iso version, and then upgrade the enic/fnic drivers.

The proper version and the download URL can be found in

http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html

Good luck

Walter.

[Kirk J]

Cisco generally releases an OEM/customized image per Update release (i.e. GA, U1, U2, U3).

Thanks,

Kirk...