Re: [Xen-devel] Intel Security Issue

[Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/06/2012 20:01, Rolu wrote:
> 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.
Silly me! I've been following the inclusion of that Xen patch as well! I just 
didn't put 2+2 together.

Thanks for your time!


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