From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr.tyshchenko@globallogic.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org, julien.grall@linaro.org, tim@xen.org,
stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] xen/tools: Introduce QNX IFS loader
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:20:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1411496458.27559.26.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21537.42802.301581.714879@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 18:00 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] xen/tools: Introduce QNX IFS loader"):
> > On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 17:19 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > These would all have been security bugs if the v3 patch had been
> > > accepted. They would have been bugs that would potentially amount to
> > > privilege escalation for very many Xen installations.
> >
> > Well, those booting untrusted QNX guests on ARM, which won't be many
> > yet, but point taken...
>
> No. The loader would run whenever it seems the appropriate image
> type, so everyone with it compiled in is vulnerable.
Yes, I realised this during dinner.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-23 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-22 18:12 [PATCH v3] xen/tools: Introduce QNX IFS loader Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2014-09-22 18:12 ` Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2014-09-23 15:53 ` Ian Campbell
2014-09-23 16:19 ` Ian Jackson
2014-09-23 16:40 ` Ian Campbell
2014-09-23 17:00 ` Ian Jackson
2014-09-23 17:58 ` Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2014-09-23 18:20 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2014-09-23 16:24 ` Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2014-09-23 16:37 ` Ian Campbell
2014-09-23 17:04 ` Oleksandr Tyshchenko
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