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Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability (MS15-042) (Cat II impact)

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Microsoft has released a security bulletin addressing a vulnerability in Hyper-V host. Hyper-V provides the end user with a virtualization platform. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would run a specially crafted application in a virtual machine (VM) session. If successfully exploited, this vulnerability would allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition leading to a subsequent crash of the affected system.

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Vulnerability ID: V-59909

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