Hi,
Xen Security Advisories 410 and 411 came out of embargo today, after
2 weeks:
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/
I've prepared updates for these and have been running them on test
machines for nearly 2 weeks, but do not intend to force a reboot in
order to deploy them on production machines.
The reason for that is that the impact is denial of service but in
our configuration it would be:
a) only degraded performance, not overload to the point of
unavailability; and
b) noticed pretty quickly and offending VMs terminated
The bugs are only exploitable by multiple VMs on the same machine
acting together. In our setup the host machines have exclusive access
to some number of CPU cores so guests can never starve the host
machine of CPU.
The fixes are ready to be included at next boot.
Also disclosed today were XSA-409 which is only relevant to Arm
architecture, and XSA-413 which is for XAPI, which we don't use.
Thanks,
Andy
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