CVE-2015-8568 (GCVE-0-2015-8568)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-11 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:20
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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.
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