6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.7 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
25.6%
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.
Author | Note |
---|---|
mdeslaur | same patch as CVE-2015-8567 |
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/15/4
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2015-8568
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8568
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8568
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2891-1
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8568
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.7 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
25.6%