CVE-2011-1872 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, R2, and R2 SP1 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS infinite loop) via malformed machine instructions in a VMBus packet, aka "VMBus Persistent DoS Vulnerability."

Published: 2011-06-16

Score: 4.7 Medium

EPSS: 2.8% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:::x64:::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008::sp2:x64:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:r2::x64:::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2011-1870	Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, R2, and R2 SP1 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS infinite loop) via malformed machine instructions in a VMBus packet, aka "VMBus Persistent DoS Vulnerability."

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02843.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48179
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025644
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-047
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12650

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Microsoft Windows Server 2008

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2011-06-16T20:21:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:46:00.843Z

Reserved: 2011-05-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-1872

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-06-16T20:55:02.480

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2011-1872

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-399

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