QEMU Memory Leak Vulnerability in VMWARE VMXNET3 Paravirtual NIC Emulator

CVE-2015-8568 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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