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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 01/10] tools: Add vga=vmware
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 23:52:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <555D1030.2020001@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <555CC717.4010409@one.verizon.com>

On 20/05/2015 18:40, Don Slutz wrote:
> On 05/15/15 04:49, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 00:42 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> On 15/05/2015 00:34, Don Slutz wrote:
>>>> This allows use of QEMU's VMware emulated video card
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
>>> Nack.
>>>
>>> Qemu-trad is currently has remote code execution vulnerabilities in its
>>> vmware vga model.  CVE-2014-3689 amongst others.
>> Maybe we should only be exposing this new functionality with the
>> qemu-upstream model?
>>
>> In general we've not been taking new development to -trad for some time.
>>
> I plan to go with the prevent usage of vga=vmware in
> device_model_version=qemu-xen-traditional
>
>    -Don Slutz

That is perfectly fine from my point of view.  (All I care about is not
exposing known RCEs)

~Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-20 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-14 23:34 [PATCH v10 00/10] Xen VMware tools support Don Slutz
2015-05-14 23:34 ` [PATCH v10 01/10] tools: Add vga=vmware Don Slutz
2015-05-14 23:42   ` Andrew Cooper
2015-05-14 23:55     ` Don Slutz
2015-05-15  8:49     ` Ian Campbell
2015-05-20 17:40       ` Don Slutz
2015-05-20 22:52         ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2015-05-14 23:34 ` [PATCH v10 02/10] xen: Add support for VMware cpuid leaves Don Slutz
2015-05-19 20:02   ` Andrew Cooper
2015-05-20  8:03     ` Julien Grall
2015-05-20 18:14       ` Don Slutz
2015-05-20 17:48     ` Don Slutz
2015-05-14 23:34 ` [PATCH v10 03/10] tools: Add vmware_hwver support Don Slutz
2015-05-14 23:34 ` [PATCH v10 04/10] vmware: Add VMware provided include file Don Slutz
2015-05-14 23:34 ` [PATCH v10 05/10] xen: Add vmware_port support Don Slutz
2015-05-19 20:23   ` Andrew Cooper
2015-05-20 17:42     ` Don Slutz
2015-05-14 23:34 ` [PATCH v10 06/10] xen: Add ring 3 " Don Slutz
2015-05-14 23:34 ` [PATCH v10 07/10] tools: Add " Don Slutz
2015-05-14 23:34 ` [PATCH v10 08/10] Add IOREQ_TYPE_VMWARE_PORT Don Slutz
2015-05-14 23:34 ` [PATCH v10 09/10] Add xentrace to vmware_port Don Slutz
2015-05-14 23:34 ` [PATCH v10 10/10] test_x86_emulator.c: Add tests for #GP usage Don Slutz

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