meltdown cache encryption

Dridi Boukelmoune dridi at varni.sh
Mon Jan 29 19:22:28 UTC 2018


> I mean I have my own VPS running Varnish on a dedicated server I own :)
> Where you meaning that someone could get information on cloud instances
> where Varnish is run for several cloud instances? I am not quite
> grasping what you mean with "neighbor´s VM".

If my understanding is correct, you could read the host memory from a
guest VM, so on shared hardware a rogue VM could dump memory from
other guests. If you have VPSs, I suppose you should be fine. Your
hosting company would know better.

Dridi


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