CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8568
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
Description
Memory leak in QEMU, when built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support, allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by trying to activate the vmxnet3 device repeatedly.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.5.1)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/15/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79721 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289816 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/15/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79721 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289816 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 Third Party Advisory