Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2017-0051 is fixed in 3 products on 1 platform, first by KB4013429, released March 14, 2017. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.
<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V Network Switch on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged 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 that causes a host machine to crash.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by preventing out-of-bound memory access.</p>