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CVE-2015-8567

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

Memory leak in net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.2
• QEMU: through 2.5.1.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11-sp4
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 11-sp4, 12, 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp4, 12, 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11-sp4, 12, 12-sp1

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176503.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176558.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175967.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176300.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00010.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00012.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00087.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00049.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00017.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00058.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00003.html

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