Re: [Xen-devel] Intel Security Issue

[Rolu <rolu@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Given that a lot of us run "untrusted" DomUs where the Domu administrator
> has full control over their PV kernel, could this Intel security issue
> impact the hypervisor and put other DomUs at risk?
>
> http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/18/3092949/security-vulnerability-x86-64-intel-processor
>

That page links to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/649219 which links
to http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00001.html
which answers your question ;-)

Yes, it's an issue. There are patches.

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