CVE-2015-8568

Aliases:DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8568
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 11
Modified
Published: 11 Apr 2017, 19:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 08:20

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
26/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.46% LOW
0% probability +0.40%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

11 Apr 2017, 19:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 08:20
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.7AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.46%• Percentile: 39%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-772•Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

    The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed.

Affected Systems

  • debian•qemu

    < 1:2.5+dfsg-3 | < 1:2.5+dfsg-3 | < 1:2.5+dfsg-3 | < 1:2.5+dfsg-3

  • debian•debian_linux

    8.0

  • qemu•qemu

    ≤ 2.5.1

References (7)