Bugtraq: Re: Sun M-class hardware denial of service

[Brett Lymn <blymn () baesystems com au>]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:01:05PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > How absolutely bizzare.  Basically you spend half a million dollars on
> > Sun hardware, and it isn't required to do this better than VMWare?
> I think you've got it exactly backwards: you don't let non-trusted
> people run code on these machines because they are so expensive.
Right, and even if you are forced to allow root access to someone who
is not well trusted then run them in a zone on the hardware domain -
that way they cannot load random kernel modules even if they have root
in the zone.

The bug is bad but there are workarounds available that make it very
difficult to exploit.

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Brett Lymn
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