Summary
AMD has disclosed an issue in AMD Zen 2-based CPUs that may allow code in a guest VM to compromise the host. Although this hardware vulnerability is not an issue in the XenServer product itself, for the convenience of customers we are providing an update that mitigates this CPU hardware issue. This issue has the following identifier:
Products covered
XenServer
Remediation
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
CVEs in this advisory 1
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- Removed affected products: This issue affects XenServer 8.4. (Note that XenServer 9 is in Public Preview; releases in preview state are not intended for production use and so are not covered by security bulletins until they exit preview state).
- The vendor changed its remediation guidance.
- The vendor changed the advisory's last-updated date.
Updates
- Published by Citrix
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- Added to SecurityAlert
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