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VENOM KVM

Critical QEMU Vulnerability – VENOM – affects Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, XenServer

Posted by Curtis K in Administration May, 14 2015 No Comments

What is the VENOM vulnerability? A new vulnerability, dubbed "VENOM" has been discovered, which exploits the virtual floppy drive code in QEMU. This vulnerability potentially allows an attacker to break out of their VM (guest) and gain privileged access to the Host machine, and its guest VMs. The official website, which contains ... Read More...

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