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r3won “Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit

* don't let network services mmap (or even open!) random executables through mandatory access control (SELinux)

r3won “Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit

It's always a matter of increasing attacker cost. I am not sure that attacking QEMU, then finding a privilege escalation on the host that can break out of SELinux is much easier than just staying in the VM, hopping through the internal network until you find a host that lets you do what you want.

Chances are what you want is "simply" access to a shared folder rather than root.

r3won Native Virtualization For macOS

How do you get the source to the LGPL components?

r3won Native Virtualization For macOS

Last January [1] there was a report of Veertu violating QEMU's GPL license. There seem to be quite a few users in this thread, could anyone confirm them?

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg057...