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

[Pizza RAC]

On Monday, July 10, 2023 at 8:15:38 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-07-07, Pizza RAC <pizzara... 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. 
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.

that they will consider customer requests for that after they get the other software left up an running