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Vigil@nce: Windows 2008, denial of service via Hyper-V
February 2010 by Vigil@nce
A local attacker located inside a guest system can block all
virtual machines of Hyper-V.
– Severity: 1/4
– Consequences: denial of service of computer
– Provenance: user shell
– Means of attack: no proof of concept, no attack
– Ability of attacker: expert (4/4)
– Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5)
– Diffusion of the vulnerable configuration: high (3/3)
– Creation date: 10/02/2010
IMPACTED PRODUCTS
– Microsoft Windows 2008
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Microsoft Hyper-V product is a virtualisation system.
Machine instructions are analyzed before being executed on the
processor. However, when Hyper-V analyzes a special sequence of
machine instructions, is locks itself.
A local attacker located inside a guest system can therefore block
all virtual machines of Hyper-V.
CHARACTERISTICS
– Identifiers: 977894, BID-38113, CVE-2010-0026, MS10-010,
VIGILANCE-VUL-9434
– Url: http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Windows-2008-denial-of-service-via-Hyper-V-9434
