From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: "Xen.org security team" <security@xen.org>,
stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, wei.liu2@citrix.com,
m.a.young@durham.ac.uk, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: DRAFT XSA 142 - libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:58:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1442836736.10338.64.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Zbt06-0000AQ-GP@xenbits.xen.org>
On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 16:22 +0000, Xen.org security team wrote:
> VULNERABLE SYSTEMS
> ==================
>
[...]
> Only systems using libxl or libxl-based toolstacks are vulnerable.
> (This includes libvirt with the libxl driver.)
^xl and ... ?
>
> All versions of libxl which support qemu-xen are vulnerable. Support
> for qemu-xen was introduced in Xen 4.1.
http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Release_Features says 4.2 as
preview and 4.3 properly. Which is wrong?
Apart from those minor nits this looks good to me, although I confess I've
not fully been following the discussion.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-21 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-15 16:22 DRAFT XSA 142 - libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen Xen.org security team
2015-09-21 11:58 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-09-21 12:55 ` Ian Jackson
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2015-09-21 12:55 Xen.org security team
2015-09-21 13:08 ` M A Young
2015-09-21 14:47 Xen.org security team
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