CVE-2010-0026 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-0026?

CVE-2010-0026 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2008, published on 10 Feb 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Hyper-V server implementation in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2 on the x64 platform allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS hang) via a crafted application that executes a malformed series of machine instructions, aka "Hyper-V Instruction Set Validation Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-0026?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

How do I fix CVE-2010-0026?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-0026 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2010-0026 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-0026 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2011-1966 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-0239 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-0240 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows Server 2008 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-vqf3-4m76-q67q.