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Linux Patched For Unsafe Xen Behavior Around CPU Speculative Attack Protections

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Original URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xen-XSA-466-Linux

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...

Posted on:2024-12-17 21:36:33

Still in Beta stage. Source on GitHub.