From: Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: Xen Security Advisory 7 (CVE-2012-0217) - PV privilege escalation
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:15:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120612121510.GQ11695@bitfolk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20439.12248.291249.667993@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
Hello,
A quick question with regard to XSA-7:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:02:32PM +0100, Xen.org security team wrote:
> MITIGATION
> ==========
>
> This issue can be mitigated by running HVM (fully-virtualised)
> or 32 bit PV guests only.
Assuming 64-bit hypervisor and dom0, with PV guests booted using
pygrub, is there any way to restrict guests to 32-bit only?
Cheers,
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-12 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-12 12:02 Xen Security Advisory 7 (CVE-2012-0217) - PV privilege escalation Xen.org security team
2012-06-12 12:15 ` Andy Smith [this message]
2012-06-12 14:06 ` Ian Campbell
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