A vulnerability was found in the XEN hypervisor . The vulnerability allows the domU user to execute code on the host side. The vulnerability does not affect virtual machines running in full virtualization HVM mode and applies only to paravirtual systems. Vulnerability is manifested on 64-bit Intel processors. At the moment, there is no public exploit, updates of popular distributions of host systems can be followed by the links: Debian OpenSUSE CentOS
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