CVE-2015-8568 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.06% · 18.9th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.06%
18.9th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSqemu0, 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu6

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