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QEMU: Venom Vulnerability Resolved - Urgent Security Patch for VMs

Calendar May 14, 2015 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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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.

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