<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists when Windows Network Address Translation (NAT) on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause the host server to crash.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker who already has a privileged account on a guest operating system, running as a virtual machine, could run a specially crafted application that causes a host machine to crash.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by modifying how Windows NAT accesses the host.</p>
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2020-10-16T22:17:38

Updated: 2024-10-01T15:56:51.725Z

Reserved: 2020-08-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-16894

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T13:45:34.397Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-10-16T23:15:13.163

Modified: 2023-12-31T20:15:48.210

Link: CVE-2020-16894

cve-icon Redhat

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