CVE-2011-1872 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Microsoft Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 and its service packs. A malicious guest operating system user can trigger an infinite loop on the host OS by sending malformed machine instructions via a VMBus packet. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.7, indicating a medium severity, as it requires local access and medium attack complexity to achieve a complete availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild, public exploit code exists, specifically EDB-17401, though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:*:*:x64:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:*:sp2:x64:*:*:*:*:* | ||
r2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:r2:*:x64:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.