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Xen Security Issue Patched

Posted by kdawson on from the stay-in-your-places-now-children dept.

An anonymous reader sends in word of a privilege escalation security issue identified in the open source Xen hypervisor. Xen has issued a hotfix and urged all users to install it. The problem was disclosed by Secunia last week. A user of a guest domain with root privileges could execute arbitrary commands in domain 0 via specially crafted entries in grub.conf when the guest system is booted.

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  1. Xen rooted by Mister+Liberty · · Score: 2, Funny


    Xen and the art of powercycle maintenance.