CVE-2015-8568

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-772

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
QEMU: through 2.5.1

References

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

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