On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:11:32AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > Is it possible to use this exploit against a kvm guest to read memory used by > the host? In other words: if an exploitable service, say httpd with mod_ssl, > is running in guest system 'vm1' hosted on system 'virthost' then what > implications does that have with respect to guests vm2 and vm3 and to virthost > itself? As I understand it, no. In fact, the memory read doesn't even cross normal *memory protections within* the VM -- this is not a kernel exploit. -- Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/>