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  • For Venom security flaw, the fix is in: Patch your VM today

    05/14/2015 4:57:57 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 1 replies
    ZD Net ^ | 13 May 2015 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    Venom (Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation), the recently discovered security hole in the open-source QEMU virtual machine hypervisor, has been fixed.That's the good news. The bad news is many of you, even though you may use a QEMU-based hypervisor on your server or for your cloud, think you've nothing to worry about. You do. Venom, as described by its discoverer, Crowdstrike, an end-point security company, works by attacking QEMU's virtual Floppy Disk Controller (FDC). The first thing many of you think when learning this is: "Who cares, I've never used a floppy drive on my virtual machine (VM)!" Ah, but,...