Re:Escaping VMware Workstation Through COM1
by PhantomGremlin on Saturday June 20, 2015 @04:32PM
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Virtualization is a great tool for using "well behaved" programs. It's foolhardy to expect it to defend against sophisticated malicious software.
About 40 years ago IBM studied the security of their own VM technology. They found many exploitable bugs, and this was on a codebase that was probably less than 1% the size of VMware. I wrote more about IBM's findings on HN about 3 months ago:
About 40 years ago IBM studied the security of their own VM technology. They found many exploitable bugs, and this was on a codebase that was probably less than 1% the size of VMware. I wrote more about IBM's findings on HN about 3 months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9241807