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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	"Xen.org security team" <security@xen.org>
Subject: Re: Xen Security Advisory 180 (CVE-2014-3672) - Unrestricted qemu logging
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 15:51:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160525145123.GC18213@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLBxZb766cT2ZnQEDeT3hGEs-6D-aVQ67L7tKo90-nhhzcJ-g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 03:04:40PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Xen.org security team <security@xen.org> wrote:
> > RESOLUTION
> > ==========
> >
> > Applying the appropriate attached patch resolves this issue.
> >
> > The patches adopt a simple and rather crude approach which is
> > effective at resolving the security issue in the context of a Xen
> > device model.  They may not be appropriate for adoption upstream or in
> > other contexts.
> 
> This is indeed a rather crude approach; but for our upcoming 4.7
> release, what's the plan?  Do we have time to generalize xenconsoled
> to handle this sort of logging, and if so, who is going to do that
> work?
> 

I this it's going to be a bit intrusive at this point to change
xenconsoled to do that. However it should be too hard to test.
We also need people to test and review it. All in all it seems time is
very tight.

We can at least apply this patch to our own tree.

Wei.

>  -George
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-25 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-23 17:09 Xen Security Advisory 180 (CVE-2014-3672) - Unrestricted qemu logging Xen.org security team
2016-05-25 14:04 ` George Dunlap
2016-05-25 14:51   ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-05-25 15:43     ` Wei Liu

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