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Microsoft Windows: CVE-2017-8704: Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 12, 2017
Added
Sep 12, 2017
Modified
Sep 5, 2025

Description

The Windows Hyper-V component on Microsoft Windows 10 1607 and Windows Server 2016 allows a denial of service vulnerability when it fails to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system, aka "Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability".

Solutions

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