CVE-2015-8568
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 11, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 15, 2015
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 79721vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20151215 Re: CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: host memory leakagemailing-list
- [qemu-devel] 20151215 Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issuemailing-list
- DSA-3471vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289816
- GLSA-201602-01vendor-advisory
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