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Microsoft Windows: CVE-2017-0178: Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Microsoft Windows: CVE-2017-0178: Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
04/11/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/11/2017
Modified
09/11/2024

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V running on Windows 10, Windows 10 1511, Windows 10 1607, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2016 host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system, aka "Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability." This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-0179, CVE-2017-0182, CVE-2017-0183, CVE-2017-0184, CVE-2017-0185, and CVE-2017-0186.

Solution(s)

  • microsoft-windows-windows_10-1507-kb4015221
  • microsoft-windows-windows_10-1511-kb4015219
  • microsoft-windows-windows_10-1607-kb4015217
  • microsoft-windows-windows_server_2012_r2-kb4015547
  • microsoft-windows-windows_server_2016-1607-kb4015217
  • msft-kb4015547-e0e5d08f-8c2b-4dcf-a8c9-36eb7c174896
  • msft-kb4015547-eb001e30-98fe-4874-a0c9-436635649fdd

References

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