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Announcing General Availability of the 8.8.2 VMware Carbon Black App Control Server

Announcing General Availability of the 8.8.2 VMware Carbon Black App Control Server

The Carbon Black team is pleased to announce the general availability of the 8.8.2 App Control server.

Important:

The VMware Carbon Black App Control Server 8.8.0 contains a critical security vulnerability.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifiers CVE-2022-22951 and CVE-2022-22952 to this issue. We strongly recommend that you upgrade as soon as possible.

For more information, see the VMware Security Advisory: VMSA-2022-0008. For questions and assistance with installation please contact customer support.

This release includes the following improvements:

  • Improved Security
  • Improved Accessibility

For more details regarding this release, including download links, release notes and other server documentation, please see the official announcement on VMware Docs.

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 link to the download page would be appreciated.

 

@Fredness: They're trying to get everyone to use the VMWare site now. Click on the last link in the article above and it will take you to the page with links.

Does this update require an agent update too? We are currently running agent version: 8.7.2.420

@marsenault - This is a Server side issue, so no need to update any Agents...


The VMware Carbon Black App Control Server 8.8.0 contains a critical security vulnerability.

what is the upgrade path from 8.1.10 to 8.8.2. does anyone have any idea i have opened the ticket but was not able to find any document related to that path. 

is upgrade suggested mostly or migration ?

@smohammed - See the below KB for Supported Upgrade Paths. For your reference 8.x > 8.x is supported...
https://community.carbonblack.com/t5/Knowledge-Base/App-Control-Supported-Upgrade-Paths/ta-p/36591

Where is the link for the download page? Can someone share the link?

Can not find the download link? help anyone please

@Velmurugan and @amusa (and anyone else reading this) - The 8.8.2 Download link specifically, can be found at the below link, bearing in mind the info stated in the original post here > "For more details regarding this release, including download links, release notes and other server documentation, please see the official announcement on VMware Docs".

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Carbon-Black-App-Control/services/cb-ac-announcements/GUID-C00DA94...

However, as an FYI, this has now been superseded by 8.8.4 Server Version, which can be found here:


https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Carbon-Black-App-Control/services/cb-ac-announcements/GUID-F680786...

And as a general rule, the Product Announcements page is a good source for reviewing other relevant info:


https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Carbon-Black-App-Control/services/cb-ac-announcements/GUID-EA27829...

I hope this helps!
David

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