Re: [Xen-devel] Impact of HW vulnerabilities & Implications on Security Vulnerability Process

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Technical
> > =========
> > On the technical front, it would be good to understand whether
> > a) This is a real threat and whether thus, we as a community need to 
> >    take action 
> 
> It is unclear what action the Xen upstream community can usefully
> take, other than providing users with information.
> 
> But, users with deployments on actual hardware ought to try to find
> out whether they are vulnerable.  If they are then they could seek
> replacement non-faulty hardware from their vendor, or take unpleasant
> migitation measures (like switching to HVM, perhaps).

How difficult is to check for it?

Is there a simple test, maybe a little executable, that users could use
to find out whether their ram is vulnerable? That would be extremely
valuable.

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