Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVE-2018-8437 is fixed in 2 products on 1 platform, first by KB4457128, released September 11, 2018. 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. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause the host server 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 that causes a host machine to crash.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by modifying how virtual machines access the Hyper-V Network Switch.</p>