SB20170314166 - Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

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SB20170314166 - Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published: March 14, 2017 Updated: November 18, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB20170314166
CSH 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 vulnerability.


1) Out-of-bounds memory access (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-0076)

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References