CVE-2017-0184HighCVSS 5.4

Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published
April 11, 2017
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2017-0184 →

📋 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 products15

  • Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 Version 1703 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows 8.1 for x64-based systems
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)
  • Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2
  • Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)
  • 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

KB4015583 (Security Update) KB4015217 (Security Update) KB4015221 (Security Update) KB4015219 (Security Update) KB4015550 (Monthly Rollup) KB4015547 (Security Only) KB3217841 (Security Update) KB4015549 (Monthly Rollup) KB4015546 (Security Only) KB4015551 (Monthly Rollup) KB4015548 (Security Only)

🔗 References (12)