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 Citrix is 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/support-home/topic-article-list?trendingCategory=20&trendingTopicName=Security%20Bulletin
Obtaining Support on This Issue
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Change Log
| 2026-01-27 | Initial Publication |
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Severity: Medium
Description of Problem
An issue has been identified in XenServer 8.4 that may allow privileged code in a guest VM to cause the host to become slow or unresponsive to management operations. This issue has the following identifier:
A further issue has been identified in XenServer 8.4 that may allow code in a guest VM process to infer in-memory data of a different process running within that same VM. This issue has the following identifier:
Affected Versions
These issues affect XenServer 8.4.