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cpach on Jan 25, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mezzanine: A Common Lisp-based 64-bit OS for Virtu...

But if there are security holes in Virtualbox, wouldn’t they be exploitable by any OS, regardless of what language it was written in?

tedunangst on Jan 26, 2015 [–]

Yes. The relevance depends on how likely you are to run a virtualbox image you found on the Internet because somebody told you "run this image".

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