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Microsoft CVE-2020-0751: Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Microsoft CVE-2020-0751: Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/11/2020
Created
02/12/2020
Added
02/11/2020
Modified
11/18/2021

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate specific malicious data from a 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.The security update addresses the vulnerability by resolving the conditions where Hyper-V would fail to handle these requests., aka 'Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0661.

Solution(s)

  • msft-kb4532693-0b4acda9-369c-4ffd-b1ec-792428aff755
  • msft-kb4532693-2af89f5f-4888-4c15-87a0-467219280044
  • msft-kb4532693-5f59add0-ba47-42c3-af2a-9aa334c053bb
  • msft-kb4532693-a9b1a21b-4d78-4445-a122-0920a6bed52a
  • msft-kb4532693-bb723d9d-43f9-41c3-ac36-25a6146ee6e3
  • msft-kb4532693-caec06fd-2ec3-455a-a38c-206eae8f2e18

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