PT-2015-3284 · Qemu+3 · Qemu+3

Qinghao Tang · Published 2015-12-16 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-8568

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a memory leak in the QEMU VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator. This can be exploited by a local attacker to cause a denial of service, specifically by consuming host memory. The exploitation involves repeatedly trying to activate the vmxnet3 device.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-772

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1565

BDU:2017-01033

CVE-2015-8568

DSA-3471-1

MGASA-2016-0023

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0123-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0126-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1750-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2494-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0873-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0955-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1318-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1560-1

SUSE-SU-2016:1703-1

USN-2891-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Qemu

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 502

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-01031 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8567 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0955-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8504 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8745 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1714 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4037 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8568 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8743 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6835 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8619 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2016-1565 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8666 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:1703-1 · Vendor Advisory