SB20170314141 - Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability



SB20170314141 - Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published: March 14, 2017

Security Bulletin ID SB20170314141
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Out-of-bounds memory access (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-0099)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker with privileged access to guest operating system to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to out-of-bounds memory access in Microsoft Hyper-V Network Switch. An attacker with privileged access to guest operating system can use a specially crafted application to trigger out-of-bounds memory access and cause the host machine to crash.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result denial of service attack again the host system.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.