On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:26:54PM +1100, K wrote:

> In build 75, I would disable Xend HTTP server which listens on all  
> interface:
> 
> svccfg -s xvm/xend setprop config/xend-http-server = boolean: false
> svcadm refresh xvm/xend
> svcadm restart xvm/xend
> 
> I reported it on the xen discussion list and one of the xvm dev said  
> it was a mistake and it will be corrected in subsequent builds.

This is now fixed indeed.

> Sun should find a way to improve the way it handles security bugs in  
> the developer and community edition as more and more people are  
> running Solaris Express in semi-production environment. For example,  
> the pygrub security hole which would let a compromised domU execute  
> arbitrary code in the dom0 domain as root was not patch in build 75,  
> one month after the bug was publicized: 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=167967#167967

That bug was publicized /after/ the build closed. A fix was put back
something like 2 days after the bug was made known, but it takes time
for the actual DVDs to come out.

john

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