Citrix advises users to manually update PuTTY version on XenCenter system

Citrix has issued a warning to its customers regarding a security flaw in the PuTTY SSH client that could potentially enable attackers to steal a XenCenter administrator’s private SSH key. The flaw, identified as CVE-2024-31497, impacts various versions of XenCenter for Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 CU1 LTSR which utilized PuTTY for SSH connections to guest virtual … Read more

Cloud Software Group snuffs open source XenCenter

Cloud Software Group snuffs open source XenCenter

Disgruntled VMware users contemplating the open source cut of XenCenter as an alternative need to think again. In December the Cloud Software Group quietly canned the offering with an update to the project’s README file. “Please note that as of December 2023 this copy of the XenCenter repository is considered archived,” the December 14 GitHub … Read more