CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-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 memory consumption) by trying to activate the vmxnet3 device repeatedly.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-772
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- qemu:qemu