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CVE-2015-8568 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:6.5 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289816 CVEIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html CVEMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 CVEThird Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 CVEThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/15/10 CVEMailing ListThird Party Advisory

see all 12 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-772Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
qemu qemu
<= 2.5.1

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux
8.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

8 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-8568
NVD Published Date:
Apr 11, 2017
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]