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Qubes Security Pack

9 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2015-10-29 · latest 2024-04-06

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  1. …virtualization. The escapes you mentioned were the main reason to do it. More info: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qs...
    comment by fsflover · 2024-04-06 · in Working with Qubes OS at the Guardian
  2. …. Also, such vulnerabilities were the reason for them to switch to VT-d by default: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qs... . I'm not an expert, but how could it affect the VT-d even in principle? AFAIK VM escape is…
    comment by fsflover · 2023-12-23 · in Qubes OS 4.2.0 has been released
  3. …done with a short script adding current headlines and bitcoin block hash to their warrant canaries: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/canarie... edit: and the script itself: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/m…
    comment by crtasm · 2022-03-05 · in QR Date – signed timestamps inside for verifying dates
  4. …attack of the three discussed, cannot be exploited _from_ a fully-virtualized (i.e. HVM or PVH) VM. https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qs... 3. It serves as an additional virtualization layer on top of Xen…
    comment by fsflover · 2021-07-26 · in When will we get secure desktop OSes? (2018)
  5. Here's a link to Qubes' security tracker with the updated details about it: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qs...
    comment by xf86alsa · 2018-03-29 · in Qubes OS 4.0 has been released
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    Qubes Security Bulletin #37
    story by rbanffy · 2018-01-11 · 0 comments
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    Critical Xen bug in PV memory virtualization code
    story by based2 · 2017-04-08 · 2 comments
  8. …to keep read-only. Xen is used by security-focused Qubes, which published an analysis of XSA-148, https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qs... : "The above is a political way of stating the bug is a very critical one.…
    comment by walterbell · 2015-10-29 · in Critical Xen bug in PV memory virtualization code
  9. Here's some analysis by the Qubes team: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qs...
    comment by mrwizrd · 2015-10-29 · in [XSA-148] x86: Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests