CVE-2015-8568
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-04-11 19:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:20
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
▼ | URL | Tags | |
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secalert@redhat.com | http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 | Third Party Advisory | |
secalert@redhat.com | http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/15/10 | Mailing List, Third Party Advisory | |
secalert@redhat.com | http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79721 | Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry | |
secalert@redhat.com | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289816 | Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
secalert@redhat.com | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html | Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
secalert@redhat.com | https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01 | Third Party Advisory |
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