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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Reporting Security Vulnerabilities to Us
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Severity: High
Description of Problem
Several issues have been identified in XenServer 8.4 that collectively may allow privileged code in a guest VM to compromise or crash the host.
These issues have the following identifiers:
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.)