Seven-year-old 'critical security bug' found in Xen, the hypervisor used by Amazon, Rackspace and IBM clouds

John Leonard
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Bug could give an attacker complete control through a hosted virtual machine

The Xen Security Team announced a critical security bug dubbed CVE-2015-7835 yesterday. The bug, which has existed for seven years, could allow an attacker write access to the underlying operating ...

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