From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Bique Alexandre <bique.alexandre@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] ATAPI CDROM passthrough v5
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:49:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A99946F.9040307@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9982EC.9000509@gmx.net>
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 28.08.2009 22:21, Bique Alexandre wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 12 August 2009 17:18:13 Ian Jackson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Also, I think Paul and I both requested that fw upgrade not be
>>>> disabled by default.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> As previously discussed I think this is a mistake, but it's a decision
>>> for qemu upstream to make so I have changed this.
>>>
>>>
>
> Anyone up for writing a security advisory about this?\
>
Eh?
If you do hardware passthrough, the guest can mess up the device. This
is always going to be true and it's a security problem IMHO to make the
user think anything other than that.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-29 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-12 17:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] ATAPI CDROM passthrough v5 Ian Jackson
2009-08-12 17:26 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ian Jackson
2009-08-12 22:00 ` [Qemu-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-13 16:44 ` Ian Jackson
2009-08-24 13:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-28 20:21 ` Bique Alexandre
2009-08-29 19:35 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2009-08-29 20:49 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-08-29 21:10 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2009-08-30 0:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-18 23:29 ` Alexander Graf
2010-10-19 0:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-19 6:17 ` Alexander Graf
2010-10-19 14:27 ` Michal Suchanek
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