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.
Published: 2017-04-11
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3471-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-8446 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2891-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:20:43.690Z

Reserved: 2015-12-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-8568

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-04-11T19:59:00.467

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2015-8568

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-12-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8568 - Bugzilla

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