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Dang, I knew someone was going to say that :P
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Dang, I knew someone was going to say that :P

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Hi,<br />
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Does anyone know if VMWare ever released a patch to address the Open SSL man-in-the-middle vulnerability described in &nbsp;CVE-2014-0224 for ESX 4.1? &nbsp;All I've been able to find on The Google are references to patches released for ESX 5.5. &nbsp;Is there something I'm missing? &nbsp;I'd like to resolve that issue on our ESX 4.1 servers but I'm not looking to have to move all of them up to 5.5.<br />
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Thanks!<br />
Matt
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Hi,

Does anyone know if VMWare ever released a patch to address the Open SSL man-in-the-middle vulnerability described in  CVE-2014-0224 for ESX 4.1?  All I've been able to find on The Google are references to patches released for ESX 5.5.  Is there something I'm missing?  I'd like to resolve that issue on our ESX 4.1 servers but I'm not looking to have to move all of them up to 5.5.

Thanks!
Matt

Fix for CVE-2014-0224 (OpenSSL Man in the middle) on VMWare ESX 4.1?

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