ghsa-wp6g-r7h4-vcwr
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:16
Modified
2022-05-13 01:16
Details

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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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2015-8568"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-772"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-04-11T19:59:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-wp6g-r7h4-vcwr",
  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:16:20Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:16:20Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8568"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289816"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/15/10"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79721"
    }
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  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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