CVE-2011-1872

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

Publication date:

16/06/2011

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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."

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.70 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

4.70

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
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:::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2011-1872

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools