In the early morning hours a pack of emails arrived to notify me of the latest round of patches for vSphere and related products. Most of the patches are related to the Service Console for ESX. A couple of the issues are shared in ESXi and are fixed with the patches.
ESX 4.0 Patches
VMSA-2010-0009 – ESX400-201005401-SG
Updates apps, cim, exsupdate, scripts, tools, vmkernel64, uwlibs, kernel, and openssl
VMSA-2010-0004.1 – ESX400-201002001
ESX Service Console updates for newt, nfs-utils, and glib2 packages.
ESXi 4.0 Patches
VMSA-2010-0009 – ESXi400-201005401-SG
The updated NTP daemon fixes a flaw in the way it handled certain malformed NTP packets.





