From: Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: Possible to prevent dom0 accessing guest memory?
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:35:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161114203501.GP1804@bitfolk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLBxZY-pBVGYYTUxnyerf3kjh09UZuUG5C3uhbbTZRxk5Cajg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi George,
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 05:09:01PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> There is probably a way to configure Xen to make it possible to build
> domains while making a full dump-core difficult to implement even by a
> motivated attacker; but that would be quite a bit more work (and very
> bespoke to your own particular situation).
I think if it could be made extremely difficult for a compromised
dom0 to dump guest memory then that would be useful to a wide range
of Xen users, as compromise of general purpose Linux hosts (like
most people's dom0s) is pretty commonplace.
Though I was reminded off-list (thanks for that), that Intel SGX and
AMD SME include features which can protect guest memory from other
guests/host/dom0, so perhaps that is a more sensible direction to go
in.
Thanks,
Andy
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-14 14:51 Possible to prevent dom0 accessing guest memory? Andy Smith
2016-11-14 15:06 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-11-14 15:29 ` Andy Smith
2016-11-14 17:09 ` George Dunlap
2016-11-14 20:35 ` Andy Smith [this message]
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