7.2 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.7%
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.
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/15/10
www.securityfocus.com/bid/79721
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289816
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01