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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/18] Xenstore stub domain



On 01/11/12 18:21, Daniel De Graaf wrote:
> This patch series allows xenstored to run in a stub domian started by
> dom0. It is based on a patch series posted by Alex Zeffertt in 2009 -
> http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-03/msg01488.html
> 

Daniel,

Can you explain what is the rationale for moving the xenstored into a
stubdom? After all, if an attacker is able to compromise the xenstored,
there should be many ways now how to compromise other VMs in the system?
And it shouldn't matter whether the xenstored is in stubdom or whether
in Dom0. E.g. the attacker might redirect the block fronts to us some
false block backends, so that the VMs get compromised fs. One could
probably think of other attacks as well...?

joanna.

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