News of the offering emerged in a throwaway line in the Release Notes for version 8.0 Update 3e of the Broadcom business unit's ESXi hypervisor. Just below the "What's New" section of that document is ...

The OpenSLP service was disabled in ESXi in 2021 starting with ESXi 7.0 U2c and ESXi 8.0 GA, VMware said. ESXi hypervisors can also be protected by disabling the SLP (Service Location Protocol ...

The vulnerability was fixed in connection with the release of ESXi 8.0 in late June, according to Broadcom, which owns VMware. In an advisory, Broadcom said that the vulnerability — as well as ...