What Customers Should Do

We have pushed updates to both the Early Access and Normal update channels of XenServer 8.4. We recommend that customers update to the latest version from their chosen channel following the instructions at https://docs.xenserver.com/en-us/xenserver/8/update

What We Are Doing 

We are notifying customers and channel partners about this potential security issue through the publication of this security bulletin on the Citrix Knowledge Center at https://support.citrix.com/securitybulletins.

Obtaining Support on This Issue

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Severity: Medium

Description of Problem

AMD has disclosed several security issues affecting AMD CPUs.  These CPU hardware issues may allow code in a guest VM to infer some active memory content of another VM that is running on the same host.  Although these are not vulnerabilities in the XenServer product itself, for the convenience of customers we are providing updates that contain updated AMD microcode and corresponding product code changes to mitigate these CPU hardware issues.

These issues have the following identifiers:

• CVE-2024-36350
• CVE-2024-36357

Affected Versions

These issues affect XenServer 8.4.

(Note that Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 CU1 is now End of Life (EoL) and so no longer receives security updates or security bulletins.)