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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                               ESB-2020.1999
                    Citrix Hypervisor Security Updates
                               10 June 2020

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           Citrix Hypervisor 8.1
                   Citrix Hypervisor 8.0
                   XenServer 7.1 LTSR Cumulative Update 2
                   XenServer 7.0
Publisher:         Citrix
Operating System:  Virtualisation
Impact/Access:     Access Confidential Data -- Existing Account
                   Reduced Security         -- Existing Account
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:         CVE-2020-0543  

Original Bulletin: 
   https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX275165

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Citrix Hypervisor Security Updates

Reference: CTX275165

Category : High

Created  : 09 Jun 2020

Modified : 09 Jun 2020

Applicable Products

  o Citrix Hypervisor 8.1
  o Citrix Hypervisor 8.0
  o XenServer 7.1 LTSR Cumulative Update 2
  o XenServer 7.0

Description of Problem

Modern CPUs contain random number generators that provide entropy (randomness)
to the software running on those processors to use for purposes such as
generating cryptographic encryption keys. Software can obtain entropy by using
the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions.

A security issue has been identified in certain CPU hardware that may allow
unprivileged code running on a host to observe the entropy provided by the CPU
to other processes, virtual machines or the hypervisor that are, or have
recently been, running, irrespective of whether they are running on the same
processor core or thread. For example, if a process in one guest VM were to use
the RDSEED instruction to get a random value to use as a secret encryption key,
another process in a different VM might be able to observe the result of that
RDSEED instruction and so determine the secret encryption key.

This issue has the following identifier:

  o CVE-2020-0543: Special Register Buffer Data Sampling Advisory

Note that this issue only affects the confidentiality of the entropy returned
by the CPU, not how random the value itself is.

Note also that an attacker can only observe the entropy most recently returned
by an RDSEED or RDRAND instruction on the system. If a further RDSEED or RDRAND
instruction is executed on the system, the older result is no longer observable
by an attacker.

Although this is not a vulnerability in the Citrix Hypervisor (formerly Citrix
XenServer) product, Citrix is providing hotfixes to mitigate this CPU issue.
Hotfixes are available for all currently supported versions of Citrix
Hypervisor up to and including Citrix Hypervisor 8.1. These hotfixes include
updated CPU microcode which may have a noticeable performance impact on
workloads that make significant use of RDRAND or RDSEED instructions.

Mitigating Factors

Only certain Intel CPUs are affected by this issue; customers are recommended
to contact their hardware vendor to determine if their system is affected.

Customers with only AMD CPUs are not affected by this issue.

What Customers Should Do

Hotfixes have been released to address these issues. Citrix recommends that
affected customers install these hotfixes as soon as their patching schedule
permits. The hotfixes can be downloaded from the following locations:

Citrix Hypervisor 8.1: CTX272278 - https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX272278

Citrix Hypervisor 8.0: CTX272277 - https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX272277

Citrix XenServer 7.1 LTSR CU2: CTX272276 - https://support.citrix.com/article/
CTX272276

Citrix XenServer 7.0: CTX272275 - https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX272275

Changelog

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|Date                      |Change                                            |
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|2020-06-09                |Initial Publication                               |
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