Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V 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 resolving a number of conditions where Hyper-V would fail to prevent a guest operating system from sending malicious requests.
🎯 Affected products8
- 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 R2
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
✅ Remediation
KB4015217 (Security Update) KB4015221 (Security Update) KB4015219 (Security Update) KB4015550 (Monthly Rollup) KB4015547 (Security Only)
🔗 References (6)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2017-0178
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4015217
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4015221
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4015219
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4015550
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4015547