[Info-vax] Now you have way more things to worry about

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-07-07, Pizza RAC <pizzaracorders at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, July 7, 2023 at 10:29:36?AM UTC-4, David Turner wrote:
>> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vmware-fixes-vrealize-bug-that-let-attackers-run-code-as-root/
>> 
>> So you have exploits that affect the x86 EFI

You may want to have a look at the footprint and functionality for the
Itanium firmware. Firmware that isn't probed anywhere near as much as
the x86-64 firmware is, so it could have issues that may have been found
long ago elsewhere.

>> Then you have exploits that hit VMWare

The same problem exists for Alpha emulators, even though it's an emulator
and not virtualisation software. Also not probed anywhere near as much as
the mainstream products.

>> So before you even run OpenVMS you have two major issues to be concerned about.
>> 
>> Is VSI ever going native X86 OpenVMS (on Proliant DL380 G10?)or it is still a "layered" piece of cheesecake?
>> 
>
> That is what I have been asking them for months ...

What answers did you get ?

Simon.

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