CVE-2017-0074HighCVSS 5.4

Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published
March 14, 2017
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V Network Switch on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker who already has a privileged account on a guest operating system, running as a virtual machine, could run a specially crafted application that causes a host machine to crash. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker who already has a privileged account on a guest operating system, running as a virtual machine, could run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by preventing out-of-bound memory access.

🎯 Affected products10

  • Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 8.1 for x64-based systems
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)

✅ Remediation

KB4013429 (Security Update) KB4012606 (Security Update) KB4013198 (Security Update) KB4012216 (Monthly Rollup) KB4012213 (Security Only) KB4012217 (Monthly Rollup) KB4012214 (Security Only)

🔗 References (15)