Microsoft CVE-2017-0051: Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability
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.
Solution(s)
- msft-kb4013429-724ee219-b949-4d44-9e02-e464c6062ae4
- msft-kb4013429-74b1fe65-bd6b-4b76-a624-8674748898f2
- msft-kb4013429-e29d1b22-493d-44dd-8857-7c6c7cb6d84c
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