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DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8568

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 me...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 qemu

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.5+dfsg-3"}]}]

Debian:13 qemu

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.5+dfsg-3"}]}]

Debian:14 qemu

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.5+dfsg-3"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org