The Xen Project’s code contributions have grown more than 10% each year. Although growth is extremely healthy to the project as a whole, it has its growing pains. For the…
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Monday we closed the poll for the security discussion. Thank you everyone who participated! The process has not turned up a hidden option that everyone agreed on; however, it has…
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The Xen Security team recently disclosed a vulnerability, Xen Security Advisory 7 (CVE-2012-0217), which would allow guest administrators to escalate to hypervisor-level privileges. The impact is much wider than Xen;…
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As I mentioned in the Xen Day post, Xen.org was offered a slot at the Build an Open Source Cloud Day Boston. The Build a Cloud attendees were great. They…
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The Xen.org community is currently working on several projects that don't receive much attention but are critical to the overall success of the Xen hypervisor solution. For example, the Xen…
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I have added information and a link to a new project on the Xen.org Project Page: Isolated Execution; project home page is http://isolated-exec.sourceforge.net/. For more information on this project, see…
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Joana Rutkowska and her team presented very interesting insights on Xen security, as well as attacks against it, at this years Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. In a trilogy…
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A new email has been established for anyone finding a security issue with any Xen build. Please send a detailed email of the problem to security@xen.org. This email distribution reaches…
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