Memory leak in QEMU - CVE-2015-8568

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Memory leak in QEMU - CVE-2015-8568

Published: April 11, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU39211
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8568
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: QEMU
Affected software:
QEMU

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within 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. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.


How to mitigate CVE-2015-8568

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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