Vulnerability CVE-2015-8568
Published: 2017-04-11

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.7/10
6.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
QEMU -> QEMU 

 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
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