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From: Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@abpni.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Intel Security Issue
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:06:29 +0100
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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!