Article 6T08V Linux Patched For Unsafe Xen Behavior Around CPU Speculative Attack Protections

Linux Patched For Unsafe Xen Behavior Around CPU Speculative Attack Protections

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Michael Larabel
from Phoronix on (#6T08V)
Merged today to the Linux kernel are fixes for two vulnerabilities with the Xen hypervisor. One of them concerns a malicious network backend being able to crash a guest after a suspend/resume cycle of a Linux guest. The other more pressing issue addressed is a Xen hypercall page being unsafe against speculative CPU attacks...
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