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Security Intel CPUs affected by VM privilege escalation exploit
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The keyword here being "VM".
All the Linux vulnerabilities seem to require XeN for the bug to appear:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/byvendor...&SearchOrder=4
A virtual machine is no more secure than the underlying host operating system.
I wish a group with the mind-set of OpenBSD (or more stringent) would create a decent open source virtual machine environment...