CVE-2015-8568medium
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.
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
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2017-04-11
Updated: 2020-09-10
Type: CWE-772
Risk Information
CVSS v2
Base Score: 4.7
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Impact Score: 6.9
Exploitability Score: 3.4
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v3
Base Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Impact Score: 4
Exploitability Score: 2
Severity: MEDIUM