Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability
🔗 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)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2017-0074
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4013429
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/4013429
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4012606
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/4012606
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4013198
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/4013198
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4012216
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012216
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4012213
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012213
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4012217
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012217
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4012214
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012214