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On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 11:17:54AM -0800, Scumbag wrote:
> 
> I asked this before on Qubes 
> forum(https://qubes-os.discourse.group/t/xen-exploit-migitations/2469), but 
> there were no replies so I'm hoping I'll get replies here:
> 
> I saw in the Xen 4.14 release notes that Xen now supports hardware based 
> Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) which has been introduced into 
> Intels Tiger Lake and AMDs Zen3 CPUs. 
> - Does Qubes support this as well? 

Yes, we do have this enabled in Qubes 4.1.

> - And does Xen also have a softwarebased CFI? 

Not that I'm aware of.

> - Does Xen also support ASLR now? Some years ago I read a post from Qubes 
> saying that Xen didn’t have many exploit migitations and didn’t even 
> support ASLR.

Indeed Xen doesn't have ASLR and won't have anytime soon (PV must die
first, at the very least). But it does use some other mitigations like
SMAP/SMEP. And also some of the more complex parts like instruction
emulator are integrated with fuzzy testing.

- -- 
Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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