CVE-2015-1647 Denial of service in n/a
Guest OS users can cause a denial of service in Hyper-V Virtual Machine Manager via a crafted application.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2015-1647?
CVE-2015-1647 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 8.1, published on 14 Apr 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) in Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (VMM functionality loss) via a crafted application, aka "Windows Hyper-V DoS Vulnerability."
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1647?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows Server 2012.
How do I fix CVE-2015-1647?
No fix has been published for CVE-2015-1647 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-2015-1647 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1647 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-74vq-p95x-w57m.