CVE-2017-8704HighCVSS 5.3

Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published
September 12, 2017
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual PCI 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 properly validating input.

🎯 Affected products3

  • Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)

✅ Remediation

KB4038782 (Security Update)

🔗 References (2)