medium6.5
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 cons…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | through 2.5.1 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 8.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- 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
- 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