CVE-2015-8568
Moderate
CVE-2015-8568
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.
Exploit probability
0.5%
Published
April 11, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
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CVE-2015-8568
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/15/10
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79721
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289816
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01