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QEMU Zero-Day Advisory: Critical Risk for Cloud Services and VMs

Calendar May 18, 2015 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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security advisory critical risk zero-day virtualization QEMU cloud services host machine
Critical vulnerability in the open-source QEMU hypervisor lets attackers break out of a virtual machine, execute code on a host machine and access all the other VMs on the host. A zero-day vulnerability affecting a variety of virtualization platforms and cloud services allows attackers to break out of a virtual machine (VM), execute code on the host machine and access any other VMs running on it, CrowdStrike researchers revealed today.

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