Hypervisor threats
Hypervisor threats from attackers are growing in popularity. In fact, the vulnerability that allows a virtual machine to escape to the hypervisor has been documented in a certain number of 64-bit operating systems that have been virtualized. In addition, a limited number of Intel CPUs are vulnerable to a local privilege-escalation attack. The attack essentially allows the virtual machine access to a ring of the kernel on the hypervisor host. While this did affect several hypervisor platforms, it did not affect the VMware ESX platform.
VMware continues to innovate in the area of isolating components of the virtual landscape with various products, including Network Virtualization Platform (NSX). NSX is designed with the Software ...
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