From: Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@abpni.co.uk>
To: Rolu <rolu@roce.org>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: Intel Security Issue
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:06:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE76535.1090801@abpni.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABs9EjkmxHnFxuVZ=Mt2_vwuRPnboefG7G533nR_LjWFk1Ncdg@mail.gmail.com>
On 24/06/2012 20:01, Rolu wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Jonathan Tripathy<jonnyt@abpni.co.uk> 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!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-24 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-24 18:42 Intel Security Issue Jonathan Tripathy
2012-06-24 19:01 ` Rolu
2012-06-24 19:06 ` Jonathan Tripathy [this message]
2012-06-25 10:13 ` George Dunlap
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