Download VMware ESXi 6.5 build 7526125

Virtualization has gained a prominent place in recent years. Well-known names include Xen and VMware. VMware’s complete platform is called vSphere and consists of several components, such as vCenter Server, which can manage a complete virtual environment, and of course the hypervisor ESXi, on which virtual machines can do their work. A few days ago, patch release ESXi650-201801001, or ESXi version 6.5 build 7526125, was released. The list of changes indicates that work has been done to fix Specter issues:

Summaries and Symptoms

This patch updates the following issue:

• This ESXi patch provides part of the hypervisor-assisted guest remediation of CVE-2017-5715 for guest operating systems. For important details on this remediation, see VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2018-0004.