DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8568

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8568 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:14	qemu	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	qemu	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	qemu	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	qemu	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Apr 11, 2017 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8568 advisory

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