CVE-2010-3960 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-3960?

CVE-2010-3960 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2008, published on 16 Dec 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS hang) by sending a crafted encapsulated packet over the VMBus, aka "Hyper-V VMBus Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-3960?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

How do I fix CVE-2010-3960?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-3960 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-2010-3960 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-3960 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Microsoft Windows Server 2008 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-c75v-x4mp-38cg.